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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... Boasian culture-and-personality school of anthropology, alongside the midcentury desegregation case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954).4 Over the course of these chapters, I develop four related arguments. The first argument is that ...
... Boasian notions of race, and thus helped justify the exclusion of minority groups from full civic belonging, were displaced over the course of the twentieth century by a culturalist juridical-racial framework that furthered racially ...
... Boasian revolution, juridical racialism helped facilitate the expansion of postwar consumer society by supporting the cause of southern desegregation, which was made possible by the expansion of federal power over the states under the ...
... Boasian culture concept and those theories of human difference it displaced as the field of anthropology grew into a fully professional discipline. This discussion proceeds in part as a sketch of Boas himself, anticipating the ...
... 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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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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