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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... Act hoped to abolish communal Indian land, constituting natives as individual property-holders, so others wished to ... Crimes Act of 1817.80 The act extended federal authority over crimes committed on Indian lands, but it made an ...
... crimes, the agency initiated prosecution against Crow Dog in the spring of 1882 in Dakota territorial court. There, under federal law, Kan-gi-shun-ca was sentenced to hang.81 As with so much else in United States history, the words of ...
... Crimes Act for crimes committed by one Indian against another included Crow Dog's murder of Spotted Tail, and so apparently invalidated the Dakota court's assertion of jurisdictional authority. In an 1868 treaty, however, the Sioux had ...
... Crimes Act, because the tribal, group-based character of Indian life was incapable of upholding the individualist law of American civilization. He argued: The pledge to secure to these people, with whom the United States was contracting ...
... law. Justice Matthews next turned to whether the 1868 treaty and 1877 statute could be said to override the General Crimes Act by implication. Justice Matthews argued that this could not be the case, because of the rule of generalia ...
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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 |