{"id":1486,"date":"2018-11-13T03:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/?page_id=1486"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:24:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T19:24:16","slug":"citizenship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/uwmedptn\/strategies-programs\/healthcare-equity\/hcetoolkit\/citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Definition\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 The rights and responsibilities that a person has a result of being born or naturalized in a country.<\/p>\n

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Recommended Books<\/h1>\n

From Immigrants to Americans: The Rise and Fall of Fitting In<\/em><\/h3>\n

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\nAuthor:\u00a0 <\/strong>Jacob Vigdor (<\/strong>University of Washington Expert on Immigration<\/a>)
\n<\/em><\/strong>Published<\/strong>: January 16, 2010
\nISBN<\/strong>: 1442201363
\nISBN13<\/strong>: 978-1442201361
\nPages<\/strong>:\u00a0 232<\/p>\n

\u201cImmigration has always caused immense public concern, especially when the perception is that immigrants are not assimilating into society [the] way they should, or perhaps the way they once did. Americans are frustrated as they try to order food, hire laborers, or simply talk to someone they see on the street and cannot communicate with them because the person is an immigrant who has not fully adopted American culture or language. But is this truly a modern phenomenon? In\u00a0From Immigrants to Americans<\/em>, Jacob Vigdor offers a direct comparison of the experiences of immigrants in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present day. His conclusions are both unexpected and fascinating. Vigdor shows how the varying economic situations immigrants come from has always played an important role in their assimilation.<\/p>\n

The English language skills of contemporary immigrants are actually quite good compared to the historical average, but those who arrive without knowing English are learning at slower rates. He continues to argue that today’s immigrants face far fewer \u201cincentives\u201d to assimilate and offers a set of assimilation friendly policies.\u00a0From Immigrants to Americans<\/em>\u00a0is an important book for anyone interested in immigration, either the history or the modern implications, or who want to understand why today’s immigrants seem so different from previous generations of immigrants and how much they are the same.\u00a0\u201c\u2013 Rowman & Littlefield<\/a><\/p>\n

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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author: <\/strong>Joshua Greene
\nPublished:<\/strong> December 30, 2004
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a09780143126058
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09781594202605
\nPages<\/strong>: 432<\/p>\n

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world\u2019s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground.<\/p>\n

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A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy,\u00a0Moral Tribes<\/i>reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings (\u201cportrait,\u201d \u201clandscape\u201d) as well as a manual mode. Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions\u2014efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience. The brain\u2019s manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us. But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them. Our tribal emotions make us fight\u2014sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words\u2014often with life-and-death stakes.A major achievement from a rising star in a new scientific field,\u00a0Moral Tribes<\/i>\u00a0will refashion your deepest beliefs about how moral thinking works and how it can work better. \u2013 Penguin Random House<\/a>\u00a0<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author: <\/strong>Yuval Noah Harari
\nPublished<\/strong>: April 30, 2015
\nISBN:<\/strong>\u00a00099590085
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09780099590088
\nPages:<\/strong> 498<\/span><\/p>\n

“Fire gave us power. Farming made us hungry for more. Money gave us purpose. Science made us deadly. This is the thrilling account of our extraordinary history \u2013 from insignificant apes to rulers of the world.\u00a0Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us. In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we\u2019re going.”\u2013 Penguin Random House<\/a><\/p>\n

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Political Tribes, Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations<\/em><\/h3>\n

\"\"Author:<\/strong> Amy Chua
\nPublished<\/strong>: February 20, 2018
\nISBN<\/strong>:\u00a00399562850
\nISBN13<\/strong>:\u00a09780399562853
\nPages<\/strong>: 304<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans are tribal.\u00a0 We need to belong to groups.\u00a0 In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most \u2013 the ones that people will kill and die for \u2013 are ethnic, religious, sectarian, or clan-based.\u00a0 But because America tends to see the world in terms of nation-states engaged in great ideological battles \u2013 Capitalism vs. Communism, Democracy vs. Authoritarianism, the \u201cFree World\u201d vs. the \u201cAxis of Evil\u201d \u2013 we are often spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics.\u00a0 Time and again this blindness has undermined American foreign policy.<\/p>\n

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In the Vietnam War, viewing the conflict through Cold War blinders, we never saw that most of Vietnam\u2019s \u201ccapitalists\u201d were members of the hated Chinese minority. Every pro-free-market move we made helped turn the Vietnamese people against us.\u00a0In Iraq, we were stunningly dismissive of the hatred between that country\u2019s Sunnis and Shias.\u00a0 If we want to get our foreign policy right \u2013 so as to not be perpetually caught off guard and fighting unwinnable wars \u2013 the United States has to come to grips with political tribalism abroad.Just as Washington\u2019s foreign policy establishment has been blind to the power of tribal politics outside the country, so too have American political elites been oblivious to the group identities that matter most to ordinary Americans \u2013 and that are tearing the United States apart.\u00a0 As the stunning rise of Donald Trump laid bare, identity politics have seized both the American left and right in an especially dangerous, racially inflected way.\u00a0 In America today, every group feels threatened: whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, liberals and conservatives, and so on. There is a pervasive sense of collective persecution and discrimination. \u00a0On the left, this has given rise to increasingly radical and exclusionary rhetoric of privilege and cultural appropriation. On the right, it has fueled a disturbing rise in xenophobia and white nationalism.In characteristically persuasive style, Amy Chua argues that America must rediscover a national identity that transcends our political tribes.\u00a0 Enough false slogans of unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. It is time for a more difficult unity that acknowledges the reality of group differences and fights the deep inequities that divide us.\u00a0\u2013 Penguin Random House<\/a><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream<\/em><\/h3>\n
\"\"Author:<\/strong> Kiyo Sato
\nPublished:<\/strong> December 1, 2010
\nISBN:<\/strong>156947866X
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09781569478660
\nPages:<\/strong> 352<\/span><\/div>\n
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Kiyo\u2019s father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo\u2019s family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family\u2019s struggle to endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice. \u2013 Soho Press<\/a><\/p>\n

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World of Our Fathers<\/em><\/h3>\n
\"\"Author:<\/strong> Irving Howe<\/div>\n
Published:<\/strong> October 1, 2005<\/div>\n
ISBN:<\/strong>\u00a00814736858
\nISBN13:<\/strong>\u00a09780814736852
\nPages:<\/strong> 714<\/span><\/div>\n
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World of Our Fathers\u00a0traces the story of Eastern Europe’s Jews to America over four decades. Beginning in the 1880s, it offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York, and shows how the immigrant generation tried to maintain their Yiddish culture while becoming American. It is essential reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many of today’s American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced, and how they experienced every aspect of immigrant life in the early part of the twentieth century.<\/div>\n
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This invaluable contribution to Jewish literature and culture is now back in print in a new paperback edition, which includes a new foreword by noted author and literary critic Morris Dickstein. \u2013 New York University Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Recommended Videos<\/h1>\n

Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger<\/em><\/h3>\n

In politics, representation matters — and that’s why we should elect leaders who reflect their country’s diversity and embrace its multicultural tapestry, says Sayu Bhojwani. Through her own story of becoming an American citizen, the immigration scholar reveals how her love and dedication to her country turned into a driving force for political change. “We have fought to be here,” she says, calling immigrant voices to action. “It’s our country, too.”\u00a0\u2013 TEDNYC<\/strong><\/p>\n

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