AAST 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Natural-Born-Citizen Clause, Hispanic And Latino Americans, Native Hawaiians

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Asian American Studies
• Course: AAST 200
• Professor: Janelle Wong

Document Summary

Citizenship legal status for subjects in a nation that confers to its members a host of rights, protections and obligations: institution through which states can grant/deny rights to inhabitants. Positions state as ultimate arbiter and guarantor of equality and justice: critiques argue universalism (every citizen is equal) is false because material lives are constituted by many inequalities that define economic social spheres. Marx: elimination of religion and property ownership as a precondition for citizenship only intensifies the reach of religion and class position. Law will treat you as if you"re equal this abstraction exists to ensure inequalities can still continue. Ethnic studies scholars: marxist critique doesn"t include racialization in citizenship: racial difference and historical racialization emerges in contradiction to the. Early asian racial formation emphasizes denial and negation of citizenship: asian labor exploited through denial of citizenship status in legislation, 1790 naturalization act only allowed free white men to naturalize.