Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of CitizenshipAmericans Without Law shows how the racial boundaries of civic life are based on widespread perceptions about the relative capacity of minority groups for legal behavior, which Mark S. Weiner calls “juridical racialism.” The book follows the history of this civic discourse by examining the legal status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods: American Indians in the 1880s, Filipinos after the Spanish-American War, Japanese immigrants in the 1920s, and African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. |
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This book contributes to the literature on American conceptions of race and citizenship from the perspective of the cultural history of law. My aim is to depict a specific language through which the racial character of civic belonging ...
1 This book examines how one aspect of our national life, the racial limits of American civic belonging, was imagined and brought into being through a culturally potent and institutionally productive language of law.
The second part considers how the racial views the thinker advanced were mirrored in the jurisprudence of Supreme Court decisions that affected, and in most cases diminished, the civic standing of the group. In chapter 1, I examine John ...
While juridical racialism was implicated in the public perception and civic status of most racial minorities in the United States, not all its rhetorical manifestations were equally important. Those I examine in this study were ...
In each instance, juridical racial rhetoric formed a conceptual link between national civic identity, American state development, and material, economic progress. In each instance, moreover, the development of federal power facilitated ...
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Contenido
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2 Teutonic Constitutionalism and the SpanishAmerican War | 51 |
3 The Biological Politics of Japanese Exclusion | 81 |
4 Culture Personality and Racial Liberalism | 107 |
Conclusion | 131 |
Notes | 135 |
Index | 185 |
About the Author | 197 |
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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |