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Learning One’s Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America - Couverture souple

Strong, Tracy B.

 
9780226623221: Learning One’s Native Tongue: Citizenship, Contestation, and Conflict in America
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 022662322X ISBN 13 : 9780226623221
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

Citizenship is much more than the right to vote. It is a collection of political capacities constantly up for debate. From Socrates to contemporary American politics, the question of what it means to be an authentic citizen is an inherently political one.

With Learning One’s Native Tongue, Tracy B. Strong explores the development of the concept of American citizenship and what it means to belong to this country,
starting with the Puritans in the seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. He examines the conflicts over the meaning of citizenship in the writings and speeches of prominent thinkers and leaders ranging from John Winthrop and Roger Williams to Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Franklin Roosevelt, among many others who have participated in these important cultural and political debates. The criteria that define what being a citizen entails change over time and in response to historical developments, and they are thus also often the source of controversy and conflict, as with voting rights for women and African Americans. Strong looks closely at these conflicts and the ensuing changes in the conception of citizenship, paying attention to what difference each change makes and what each particular conception entails socially and politically.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tracy B. Strong is professor of political theory and philosophy at the University of Southampton, UK, and distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books, including most recently, Politics without Vision.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022662322X
ISBN 13 
9780226623221
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
341
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