Illuminating the Racial Contract: Citizenship and the Institutionalization of Racialized Labor Markets

In Max Holt’s "Illuminating the Racial Contract: Citizenship and the Institutionalization of Racialized Labor Markets," the reader will find the clear ways in which the Racial Contract is an historical actuality within the United States that has clearly manifested itself through the restriction of citizenship from certain groups. Among other factors, Holt’s analysis demonstrates the number of ways in which the jurisprudence surrounding the granting of citizenship traditionally revolved around requiring citizens to be “white.” The reader will find, however, that this requirement was a moving target, that being one in which the necessary conditions for being classified as “white” within the eyes of the courts was ever changing so as not to include those which the courts desired to exclude.