ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: United States V. Wong Kim Ark, Scientific Racism, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
17 Nov 2020
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Lecture 5. 2: race by law: white, red, and black in the united states: racial restrictions in the law of u. s. Citizenship [ian haney lopez: birthright citizenship 1789 - 1940. Ratification of us constitution 1789 - 14th amendment 1868 - citizenship act 1924 - Realized selective discrimination can"t be applied so they preemptively did it to maintain black americans out of constitution. Ruled national citizenship is a closed community to only founders, their descendants, and those aliens transformed by naturalization. Because blacks are none of these, could not be citizens. Children of illegal immigrants born in us are citizens! - nationality act of 1940: naturalization 1790 - 1952. Naturalization act 1790 - immigration and nationality act 1952. - 1790 - 1970: only whites could naturalize. - 1870 persons of african nativity or african descent allowed to naturalize. - chinese exclusion act of 1882 (repealed 1943) - incremental retreat from whites only conception of citizenship: post civil war to post wwii.
