Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of CitizenshipNYU Press, 2006 - 197 páginas Americans 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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... Boas's mother maintained particularly close ties with German liberal democrats, including Carl Schurz, while her sister Sophie married the physician and reformer Abraham Jacobi. As a youth, Boas was drawn to the natural and physical ...
... Boas's ideas can be grouped into two broadly related areas, the first political, the second scientific; in both, they were the principles of a modernizer. In the realm of political life, Boas was an anti-racist, and as a principled man ...
... Boasian split of culture from race widened the “circle of we”: not simply through the widely heralded achievement of fostering increased tolerance of human difference by relativizing cultural value (a principle advanced especially by Boas's ...
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22 | |
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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