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Offeres a sweeping, interdisciplinary analysis of citzenship's contradictions.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Citizenship Construct 2 The Creation of the Concept: The Classical Period 3 The City-States of the Dark Ages 4 The Movement toward Nascent Nation-States 5 The Philosophical Influence of the Enlightenment 6 The De Jure Subordinates 7 The De Facto Subordinates? 8 A New Vision of Citizenship? Notes Index About the Author

About the Author

Ediberto Román is Professor of Law at Florida International University. He is the author of The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of the United States’ Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests, and edits the NYU Press series Citizenship and Migration in the Americas.

Reviews

"A refreshing, thoughtful, and timely work. Roman's incisive unbundling of 'the construct of citizenship' and the consequences of variegated membership is foundational work that will be widely cited." Michael A. Olivas, author of 'Colored Men' and 'Hombres Aqua' Hernandez v. Texas and the Emergence of Mexican American Lawyering