Jim Crow Citizenship

Marek D. Steedman is associate professor of Political Science at the University of Southern Mississippi.

• 1. Introduction 2. Familial Relations: Dependents-by-Nature and the Antebellum Household 3. ‘Dead Votes’: Reconstructing Citizenship and Dependence 4. New Beings: Race and ‘The Foundations of Free Government’ 5. Wards of the Nation: The Progressive Tutelage of the Races 6. Conclusion

"This fine book brilliantly explores how America’s liberal tradition coexisted and evolved alongside white supremacy in the early twentieth century south. By honestly surveying a distinctively southern progressive movement that interwove commitment to liberal values with patriarchal racial hierarchies, Steedman shifts the ground for future considerations of liberalism and race in American politics. Highly recommended for scholars of liberal theory, race and political development, and legal history, but also for anyone who wants to understand the roots of contemporary racial politics in the United States."—Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY"Marek Steedman has done an exceptional job in tracing the contours of southern political thought. In Jim Crow Citizenship, Steedman rightfully returns the study of southern political thought to its important role in shaping American political thought and American political development. Students of the south and especially of Southern Progressivism will have to grapple with the enduring questions of race, citizenship and American liberalism that Steedman confronts."—Kimberley Johnson, Barnard College