All Allegiance
Front/Space
Kansas City, MO, Fall 2017
All Allegiance is a workshop and exhibition at Front/Space that initiated ongoing research into the legal history surrounding American citizenship in the United States. My research ultimately shows how the notion of the “American citizen” has been constructed in reaction to a racialized notion of the “immigrant” in ways that (partly) shaped contemporary forms of white supremacy. In the exhibition, I attempted to convey this historical reality through the use of printed materials, poetic reflection, and visual interpretations of my research.
The workshop titled, Re-Imagining (Denationalized) Citizenship, involved a discussion of the materials in the exhibition, where I showed examples of moments where the legal definition of whiteness was refined in the 20th century through trials which excluded ‘non-white’ aliens from citizenship.
The workshop titled, Re-Imagining (Denationalized) Citizenship, involved a discussion of the materials in the exhibition, where I showed examples of moments where the legal definition of whiteness was refined in the 20th century through trials which excluded ‘non-white’ aliens from citizenship.
