Law and the borders of belonging in the long nineteenth century United States /

"For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of "American citizenship." Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarsh...

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Main Author: Welke, Barbara Young, 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010
Series:New histories of American law
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Constructing a universal legal person : able white manhood
  • Subjects of law : disabled persons, racialized others, and women
  • Borders : resistance, defense, structure, and ideology
  • Conclusion : Abled, racialized, and gendered power in the making of the twentieth century American state