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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Citizenship Stripping: You Are Not American
Description: Over the last two centuries, the US government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered âun-Americanââwhether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. Drawing on the narratives of those who have struggled to be treated as full members of âWe the People,â law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day.The Supreme Courtâs rejection of Black citizenship in Dred Scott was among the first and most notorious examples of citizenship stripping, but the phenomenon did not end there...