American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Nackenoff Carl
American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Nackenoff Carl American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name,…
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American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for Citizenship Nackenoff Carl
American by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. Chinese immigrants, invited into the United States in the 1850s and 1860s as laborers and merchants, faced a wave of hostility that played out in organized private violence, discriminatory state laws, and increasing congressional efforts to throttle immigration and remove many long-term residents. In the late nineteenth century, much like the present, the United States was a difficult, and at times threatening, environment for people of color.
This was the situation faced by The federal courts, backed by the Supreme Court, supervised the development of an increasingly restrictive and exclusionary immigration regime that targeted Chinese people.