The Qualities of a Citizen : Women, Immigration, and Citizenship, 1870-1965 /
The Qualities of a Citizen traces the application of U.S. immigration and naturalization law to women from the 1870s to the late 1960s. Like no other book before, it explores how racialized, gendered, and historical anxieties shaped our current understandings of the histories of immigrant women. The...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I : Wives, mothers, and maids
- Immigrants, citizens, and marriage
- The limits of derivative citizenship
- Seeing difference
- Constructing a moral border
- Likely to become
- Toil and trouble
- II : Citizens, residents, and non-Americans
- When Americans are not citizens
- When citizens are not white
- Reproducing the nation
- Women in need
- At work in the nation
- III: Marriage, family, and the law
- Families, made in America
- Marriage and morality
- Regulating belonging.