Citizenship and humanness are connected yet not identical, and one can diminish the other

Evidence

The anomalous position of African Americans was that they were neither the bearers of national rights nor of human rights. Malcolm X had told his audience that “Human rights are something you were born with.” However, African Americans were at once born American (with citizenship rights only in the United States), and they were human beings who happened to be black (to be a full human being in America one had to be white). One aspect of birth diminished the other, because citizenship and the status of being human, although connected, are not identical. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 699 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Citizenship and humanity, though linked, are not the same status — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 699; Loss of citizenship reduces people to mere natural differentiation without significance — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 738; Liberal universal citizenship can leave excluded identity intact beneath its surface — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1620

Broader Connections

• Citizenship and humanity, though linked, are not the same status #corroborates (0.95) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 699