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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the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated the “assimilationist era” of federal Indian policy, ... moreover, the late-nineteenth century witnessed the marked expansion and modernization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, ...
As Francis Paul Prucha notes, this approach to Indian affairs was less a specific statutory agenda than “a state of mind, a determination that since the old ways of dealing with the Indians had not worked, new ways which emphasized ...
important, assimilationist-era Indian policy was unique in the extent to which it was concerned with cultural-legal ... contours, animals, and plants, with the heart of a man schooled in the practical affairs of land-use management.
Through their participation in public affairs, these war-seasoned men helped forge the “new ideal of the intellectual as ... just as Indian reformers hoped that agricultural land-owning and Protestant discipline would spark economic ...
... practical administrative use of a systematic investigation of native peoples. Scientific knowledge, valuable in its own terms, would also make possible the practical management of Indian affairs and the sound settlement of the West.
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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 |