The good citizen : the markers of privilege in America / JoAnne Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, JoAnne, 1954- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Social aspects--United States.

Citizenship.

Political participation--Social aspects--United States.

Political participation.

Privilege (Social psychology)--United States.

Privilege (Social psychology).

Social structure--United States.

Social structure.

Political participation--Social aspects.

Citizenship--Social aspects.

United States.

Distributive justice--United States.

Distributive justice.

Physical Description:

1 volume ; 23 cm

Edition:

1.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Using applied political theory, JoAnne Myers presents five markers by which citizens become second-class citizens--property, productivity, participation, patriotism and reproduction. Citizenship is a highly contested status since it grants members political rights and responsibilities. It is contextualized by cultural, political, historical, economic, situational, and place. In the United States, we think of citizenship in principle as democratic but citizenship is not just a binary status: norms, policies and laws can mark some citizens as "other". In The Good Citizen: The Markers of Privilege in America, Myers argues that being marked as not having or achieving these markers is how citizenship is controlled and regulated. To illustrate this argument, each chapter begins with a practical question or myth to ease the reader into the marker being examined. She later articulates the ways in which law and norms, and biopower regulates and controls citizens in three policy areas. Myers moves beyond theories of citizen marginalization based on identity politics and intersectionality to provide a new understandings of citizenship practice. The Good Citizen will be of interest to scholars and researchers of the politics, sociology, or legal studies of citizenship, and anyone concerned with distributive justice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Citizen and Political Theory In America

Myth America

Patriotism

Propertied

Political Participation

Productive Citizen

Re-Producing Citizens

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Myers, JoAnne, The good citizen

ISBN:

9781138543508

1138543500

9781138543515

1138543519

OCLC:

1090840129