Almost Citizens : Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire

Name: Almost Citizens
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108415491
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ISBN: 9781108415491

by Sam Erman

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Format Hardback

Book Series Studies in Legal History

ISBN-10 1108415490

ISBN-13 9781108415491

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 13th, 2018

Print length 290 Pages

Weight 544 grams

Dimensions 16.30 x 23.70 x 2.60 cms

Product Classification: History of the Americas 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Legal history Citizenship & nationality law Citizenship and nationality law History History of the Americas

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Almost Citizens traces the struggles over citizenship waged between US officials and Puerto Rican individuals, which led to a seismic constitutional shift away from citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward racist imperial governance.

Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As America became an overseas empire, a handful of remarkable Puerto Ricans debated with US legislators, presidents, judges, and others over who was a citizen and what citizenship meant. This struggle caused a fundamental shift in constitution law: away from the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward doctrines that accommodated racist imperial governance. Erman's gripping account shows how, in the wake of the Spanish-American War, administrators, lawmakers, and presidents together with judges deployed creativity and ambiguity to transform constitutional meaning for a quarter of a century. The result is a history in which the United States and Latin America, Reconstruction and empire, and law and bureaucracy intertwine.

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