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FA 2006 American Culture AMCULT 102 - First Year Seminar in American Studies Section 002 American Citizenship: History and Theory ClassHomepage
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	SS
Other:	FYSem, Theme
Advisory Prerequisites:	Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Rosen,Hannah
	(real time availability for all sections)

What does it mean to be a citizen? How have notions of "citizenship" and a "public sphere" been central to understandings of, and struggles for, equality throughout American history? This course explores the evolution of American citizenship — its changing legal contours and cultural meanings — in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will focus on the racial and gender dimensions of this history, both dominant discourses constructing an exclusively white-male citizenry and popular practices challenging it.

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