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The rhetoric of common enemies in the racial prerequisites to naturalized citizenship before 1952
(2013-05)
This dissertation examines the rhetorical strategy by which groups unite against common enemies as it appears in a series of judicial cases between 1878 and 1952 deciding whether petitioners for naturalization in the United ...
“The white man’s burden” : rhetorical constructions of race and identity in U.S. naturalization cases from India, 1914-1926
(2009-05)
This report examines the rhetorical strategies employed in several judicial cases during the 1920s in which the U.S. government contested the racial eligibility of Hindus for naturalization under a law providing that only ...