Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century - United State

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Young Welke is Associate Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. She is the recipient of several prizes including the Surrency Prize from The American Society for Legal History for her article 'When All the Women Were White and All the Blacks Were Men: Gender, Race, Law and the Road to Plessy' and the American Historical Association's Littleton-Griswold Prize in the history of American law and society for her book, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law and the Railroad Revolution, 1865–1920. Her earlier articles have appeared in Law and Social Inquiry and the Law and History Review. Klappentext This book offers a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of the United States through the 1920s. Zusammenfassung This book offers a new paradigm of liberal selfhood and citizenship from the founding of the United States through the 1920s. Welke's research characterizes this period as a time of 'borders of belonging' in which able white men's privilege depended on the subject status of disabled persons! racialized others! and women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Constructing a universal legal person: able white manhood; 2. Subjects of law: disabled persons, racialized others, and women; 3. Borders: resistance, defense, structure, and ideology; Conclusion: abled, racialized, and gendered power in the making of the twentieth-century American state; Coda.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Young Welke, Barbara Young (University of Minnesota) Welke, Welke Barbara Young
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521761888
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76188-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: New Histories of American Law; New Histories of American Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)