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 chapter 1, I examine John Wesley Powell, founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, ...
In chapter 1, I examine John Wesley Powell, founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, ...
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These included most prominently theories of unilinear social evolution, in which all societies are classified according to a single continuum of upward historical progress, and those of racial essentialism, which attribute cultural ...
These included most prominently theories of unilinear social evolution, in which all societies are classified according to a single continuum of upward historical progress, and those of racial essentialism, which attribute cultural ...
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In Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor sought to explain differences in past and present human societies by developing a doctrine of progressive social evolution. His definition of culture was more expansive than Arnold's.
In Primitive Culture (1871), Tylor sought to explain differences in past and present human societies by developing a doctrine of progressive social evolution. His definition of culture was more expansive than Arnold's.
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Not only do they stand outside a transcendent evolutionary scheme, but they also can be known and understood only on their own individual terms, according to their own self-contained systems of meaning. Second, the modern understanding ...
Not only do they stand outside a transcendent evolutionary scheme, but they also can be known and understood only on their own individual terms, according to their own self-contained systems of meaning. Second, the modern understanding ...
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For Boas, professionalism also entailed abandoning the grand, Victorian schemes of social evolution and attributions of cultural difference to race. He asked anthropologists instead to examine each society they encountered on its own ...
For Boas, professionalism also entailed abandoning the grand, Victorian schemes of social evolution and attributions of cultural difference to race. He asked anthropologists instead to examine each society they encountered on its own ...
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Contenido
| 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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Página 29 - ... the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.
Página 13 - Civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
Página 76 - A false step at this time might be fatal to the development of what Chief Justice Marshall called the American Empire. Choice in some cases, the natural gravitation of small bodies towards large ones in others, the result of a successful war in still others, may bring about conditions which would render the annexation of distant possessions desirable. If those possessions are inhabited by alien races, differing from us in religion, customs, laws, methods of taxation and modes...
Página 129 - In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms. We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority...
Página 74 - Whether a particular race will or will not assimilate with our people, and whether they can or cannot with safety to our institutions be brought within the operation of the Constitution, is a matter to be thought of when it is proposed to acquire their territory by treaty.
Página 130 - Such considerations apply with added force to children in grade and high schools. To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
Página 125 - Court relied in large part on "those qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness in a law school.
Página 44 - ... savage life, from the authority and power which seeks to impose upon them the restraints of an external and unknown code, and to subject them to the responsibilities of civil conduct, according to rules and penalties of which they could have no previous warning; which judges them by a standard made...
Página 177 - Deutscher and Chein, The Psychological Effects of Enforced Segregation: A Survey of Social Science Opinion, 26 J. Psychol. 259 (1948); Chein, What are the Psychological Effects of Segregation Under Conditions of Equal Facilities?, 3 Int.
Página 137 - Edmund S. Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1975); Orlando Patterson, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982). 21. Joan W. Scott, "The Evidence of Experience," Critical Inquiry 17 (Summer 1991): 776.
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| Título | Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship |
| Autor | Mark S. Weiner |
| Edición | comentada |
| Editor | NYU Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0814793649, 9780814793640 |
| Largo | 197 páginas |
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