..., America’s schools have systematically failed to prepare students to be capable citizens. Rebell analyzes the causes of this failure, provides a detailed analysis of what we know about how to prepare students for productive citizenship, and considers examples of best practices. Rebell further argues...

... to preserve hundreds of community gardens. The questions raised through those experiences drive this research. The study of squatting makes the contested and dynamic nature of value, urban citizenship, claims on urban space, and property claims in particular, highly visible. In a neoliberalizing city...

... the Party has a much more considerable success on the state and local levels. Debs resists World War I and is sentenced to jail (still runs for President from jail). “interests the ” Weaver James Harrison Benjamin Australian ballot and citizenship citizenship alien ownership and citizenship Gilded Age...

... of being a citizen. America at beginning of twentieth century Kraus George Strong Anna Louise “interests the ” Keyssar Alexander Bryan William Jennings Carnegie Andrew Lodge Henry Cabot and citizenship for Philippines McKinley William Roosevelt Theodore Spanish American War Twain Mark Hoar...

...-entertainment complex,” none of these views of politics accurately reflects the true essence of politics: living freely with others in conditions of equality and plurality. The chapter then looks at three pillars of the art of politics–constitutions, governing, and citizenship–to argue that, of these three...

... citizenship for military service; permitting interracial marriage; and owning or leasing property to reclaim ownership of productive power. Chapter Two concludes by reflecting on the origins and manifestations of a distinctive Filipino “oppositional legal consciousness.” class Filipino Americans immigration...

... of all classes and ethnicities with the opportunity to become full-fledged citizens, it redefined citizenship as synonymous with whiteness. This link between school and American identity, the book insists, increased white hostility to black education at the same time that it spurred African Americans...

... democracy by creating the conditions for equal citizenship and egalitarian empowerment, and how they can advance justice by securing social mobility and cultivating the talents and interests of every individual. They then evaluate constraints on achieving the goals of democracy and justice...

..., making a place for themselves, within France's (post)colonial space. At a moment when the neocolonial effects of departmentalization became painfully evident and the separatist movement reached its apogee, gwoka became a vehicle through which Guadeloupean negotiated their cultural citizenship...

..., the work of the Lyannaj represents another instantiation of the d賯ur. By forcing the recognition of Guadeloupe's cultural specificity within the French state on an international stage, the Lyannaj pou gwoka cements the emergence of a Creole postnational citizenship: cognizant of its limited economic...

..., both thinkers acknowledged incorporation into US citizenship as colonial but treated citizenship as a pragmatic constitutional tool to prevent extreme forms of domination (“citizenship without civilization”). It also illustrates how they reworked dominant US political ideologies in anticolonial...

... of others ori olori marriages between West African migrants and EU nationals from peripheral Europe peripheral Europe residence permits siblinghood between lenders and borrowers of identity citizenship European Court of Justice European Union family reunification Greece marriages between West...

... kinship networks, and marriages that provide access to citizenship, new assemblages of kinship are continually made and remade to navigate complex migration routes and the shifting demands of European states. West African migrants with precarious legal status mobilize and produce kinship to obtain...

..., participants tend to leave their discussions with a heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience. Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning of citizenship in our society, it challenges many...

... Republic to Julius Caesar and the civil war that began with his murder by the Republicans and ended with the victory of his adopted son, Octavian, who assumed the title of Augustus. The continuous extension of Roman citizenship to other subordinate city states and eventually all of Italy...

... emperor's powerful wife, Iulia Domna, who was called Augusta and mother of the army. This full integration of the imperial periphery was celebrated by the universalization of Roman citizenship by her son, Caracalla. Alongside the extension of citizenship to all subjects of the Empire, Syrian jurists under...

... On Liberty. Part IV takes up the relationship between liberty and equality, refuting conservative arguments that securing basic liberties and the status of equal citizenship for gays and lesbians has imperiled the religious liberty of opponents of such rights. Part V reflects upon the future, including...

... crystallizing anxieties over wider political and economic instability. To effectively understand and critique homophobia, Meiu suggests, we must take these objects seriously, and recognize them as potential sources for new forms of citizenship, intimacy, resistance, and belonging....

... distinctions between “truth” and “deceit” difficult. The chapter continues with a description of an asylum seeker’s attempt to prove his citizenship through relatives’ ID cards, the asylum interview, a language analysis, personal photographs, and even a video message from his mother. Next, the chapter...