Carol Nackenoff is the Richter Professor of
Political Science at Swarthmore College.
Julie Novkov is professor of political science and
women's, gender, and sexuality studies at the University at Albany,
State University of New York. Nackenoff and Novkov are the
coeditors of Stating the Family: New Directions in the Study of
American Politics and of Statebuilding from the Margins: Between
Reconstruction and the New Deal.
We have long needed a biography of Wong Kim Ark, and American by
Birth delivers. It's the history of American citizenship, the
tireless efforts of one man and his lawyers to challenge cruel and
racist policies, and Wong Kim Ark's continuing legacy today.
Nackenoff and Novkov's timely book is a must-read!" - Erika Lee,
author of America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the
United States, and director of the Immigration History Research
Center at the University of Minnesota
"American by Birth tells the compelling story Wong Kim Ark-a
Chinese American who was forced to defend his claim to US
citizenship-and the landmark Supreme Court case that bares his
name. Centering their study around his hard-won battle, Carol
Nackenoff and Julie Novkov deftly trace the multiple origins of
birthright citizenship and its sprawling consequences for American
society." - Beth Lew-Williams, associate professor of history,
Princeton University, and author of The Chinese Must Go: Violence,
Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
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