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.
... that revolution took place when the modern culture concept, originally advanced by Franz Boas, displaced modes of understanding human difference associated with nineteenth-century ethnology and the intellectual fields and frameworks ...
Second, I discuss the history of anthropological and other approaches to human variation, especially the rise of the modern concept of culture associated with Franz Boas and his students. Specifically, I describe the conflict between ...
... the most significant was Franz Boas.32 Born in 1858 in Westphalia, Germany, Boas was raised in the town of Minden, ... Boas's mother maintained particularly close ties with German liberal democrats, including Carl Schurz, ...
Although born in the United States, Brandeis had been raised, like Franz Boas, in an atmosphere of liberal, middle-class German-Jewish political activism and high culture.42 His family had moved to the United States partly in reaction ...
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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 |