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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In addition, I wish to offer a window onto how the rise of the concept of culture associated with anthropologist Franz Boas entered U.S. constitutional law and influenced American conceptions of national identity.
... political officials, as a tool with which to advance generally exclusionary policies of citizenship; and the judiciary, as an underlying structure of jurisprudence in constitutional and statutory adjudication.
Most important, the rhetoric of juridical racialism was a discourse of modernization that, in all its forms and stages, advanced the constitutional authority of the federal government in ways that furthered national economic growth.
The tradition of juridical racialism in American civic life is not sui generis.15 The mutual constitution of the idea of race and the concept of law is implicit in the life of most nations. Groups achieve a feeling of solidarity in part ...
The mutual constitution of race and law assumed a qualitatively new status with the gradual emergence of professional social scientific disciplines in the United States, especially in the wake of the Civil War.
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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 |