Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America — Who Builds Citizenship?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Author: Martha S. Jones
This episode explores Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America by Martha S. Jones as a systems-level analysis of how local legal practice, racial exclusion, and procedural participation influenced citizenship, belonging, and institutional outcomes.
By focusing on incentive architecture rather than personalities or events, the episode shows why these systems persisted — and how they connected to larger economic, political, legal, and constitutional structures…
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