Allan Colbern is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is a Presidential Award recipient from the Russell Sage Foundation and Carnegie Corporation, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.

1. Introduction; 2. Citizenship in a federated framework; 3. National and state citizenship in the American context; 4. State citizenship for blacks; 5. Worst to first: California's evolution from regressive to progressive state citizenship; 6. State citizenship and immigration federalism; 7. Enabling progress on state citizenship.