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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... evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, which subdivided native lands during the assimilationist era of U.S. Indian policy. In chapter 2, I discuss Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, progressive ...
... evolution, in which all societies are classified according to a single continuum of upward historical progress, and those of racial essentialism, which attribute cultural differences to somatic inheritance. The success of Boas and his ...
... evolution. His definition of culture was more expansive than Arnold's. For Tylor, culture included the “complex ... evolutionary historical path that all societies shared. Early approaches to culture also typically were intimately linked ...
... 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 of culture differs from older uses of the term ...
... evolution and attributions of cultural difference to race. He asked anthropologists instead to examine each society they encountered on its own terms and refrain from judgments of value in order to understand the society's symbolic ...
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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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