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 chapter 1, I examine John Wesley Powell, founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, ...
... structuring his life according to those masculine attributes of “infinitely competent responsibility and self-cohering discipline” characteristic of modern legal identity.6 John Wesley Powell, navigating the Colorado River with only ...
... particularly several who appear in this book: John Wesley Powell, the social developmentalist examined in chapter 1; Daniel Garrison Brinton, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who appears briefly ...
In my analysis of Powell's work, I thus consider how a developmentalist view of race and law became constitutive of the law itself. John Wesley Powell and the Evolution of Property From the Laws of Development, Laws of Land | 23.
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 ...
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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 |