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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... Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, which subdivided native lands during the assimilationist era of U.S. Indian policy.
the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated the “assimilationist era” of federal Indian policy, when the national government sought to force Indians to model their lives on Euro-American standards of behavior, especially by ...
John Wesley Powell and the Evolution of Property From the presidency of Andrew Jackson until roughly the start of the 1870s, U.S. policy toward native peoples centered on moving Indians west of the Mississippi, driving them onto ...
For Christian activists, those who called themselves “friends of the Indian,” the result of such anti-tribal policies would be the civilization and redemption of the indigenous inhabitants of North America.18 They would create an ...
important, assimilationist-era Indian policy was unique in the extent to which it was concerned with cultural-legal differences, the extent to which it attempted to assimilate native peoples socially by altering their law.23 “If the ...
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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 |