{"podcast":{"title":"New Books in African American Studies","slug":"new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218","podcast_index_feed_id":614218,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/LIT9884742733","website_url":"https://newbooksnetwork.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/6ec4ef18-f161-11e8-aa0f-cb6d12c6835d/image/5571090387754d767d98f7128343781c.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"New Books Network","episode_count":1943,"summary":"This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: newbooksnetwork.com Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ Follow us on Instagram and Bluesky to learn about more our latest interviews: @newbooksnetwork Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies","last_synced_at":"2026-06-27T14:21:48.015468+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218"},"episode":{"title":"Anna O. Law, \"Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants\" (Oxford UP, 2026)","slug":"anna-o-law-migration-and-the-origins-of-american-citizenship-african-americans-native-americans-and-immigrants-oxford-up-2026","published_at":"2026-06-18T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218/anna-o-law-migration-and-the-origins-of-american-citizenship-african-americans-native-americans-and-immigrants-oxford-up-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-books-in-african-american-studies-614218","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5785432735.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/NBNK5785432735.mp3","summary":"Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights in the Department of Political Science at City University of New York-Brooklyn Campus, has a deeply researched and important new book that weaves together different approaches to understanding American citizenship, especially in context of immigration and migration in the first century of the U.S. republic. Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship: African Americans, Native Americans, and Immigrants (Oxford University Press, 2026) engages three different disciplines, including Political Science, History, and Legal Studies/Law, to unpack the many different approaches to citizenship in the new republic. Law noted as we spoke that she had not intended to write a book about slavery, but it was impossible to think about or understand immigration in the United States, especially in the first century of the United States, without examining the particular place and role of those who were enslaved, since they were also immigrants to the United States, though it was a forced immigration, against their will and without their consent. Part of what Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship focuses on is that prior to the Civil War and the post-war constitutional Amendments, immigration was a patchwork, designed state by state, without a national standard or structure. Thus, we see a form of federalism that shifts from the states to the national government after the 14th and 15th Amendments, and after a number of pieces of legislation passed in the 1880s by Congress. Immigration becomes a more centralized issue and process as Congress passed a raft of restrictive laws focused mostly on Chinese individuals. These moves took the power to manage immigration away from the individual states and nationalized po…","meta_description":"Anna O. 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