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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 17
... native lands during the assimilationist era of U.S. Indian policy. In chapter 2, I discuss Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, progressive exponent of American imperialism and student of the Teutonic origins thesis of American government (a ...
... Indian policy, when the national government sought to force Indians to model their lives on Euro-American standards of behavior, especially by encouraging them to become independent agriculturalists.4 In this context, the newly ...
... policy toward native peoples centered on moving Indians west of the Mississippi, driving them onto reservations with ... Indian question.” As Francis Paul Prucha notes, this approach to Indian affairs was less a specific statutory agenda ...
... Indian problem by abolishing traditional native society was hardly unique to the 1870s. The goal of assimilation had deep roots in the American past.20 Three aspects of Indian policy in the assimilationist era, however, were specific to ...
... Indian problem,” wrote one advocate in the North American Review, “would seem to be a self-evident proposition.”25 Indian policy during the late-nineteenth century was in this respect self-reflexive, a legal project that addressed the ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |