Daryl Michael Scott

Hello,

I'm busy nowadays working on a study of white nationalism in the American South.  After years of administration, I feel like a graduate student all over again--minus the infantilization and plus a decent salary!

If anyone who stumbles onto this site has an opinion about when blacks in America became citizens, please feel free to share your considered opinion via email.  (Please, do not mention that the American constitution considered blacks as three-fifths of a person; that clause only dealt with the question of determining a state's representation in Congress, not citizenship.)  Many of my fellow academics hold that free blacks were always citizens.  On the other hand, some others are of the view that it was not until the Civil Rights era that blacks became citizens.  At this moment, I'm not so certain, so I'm all ears.