The Good Citizen - 9781138543508

Taylor & Francis

The Good CitizenThe Markers of Privilege in America\nAuthor(s): JoAnne Myers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138543508, 978-1138543508\nSynopsis\nUsing applied political theory, JoAnne Myers presents five markers by which citizens become second-class citizensproperty, 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.\n\nIn 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 b.