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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Preface Introduction 1 1 Laws of Development, Laws of Land Teutonic Constitutionalism and the Spanish-American War The Biological Politics of Japanese Exclusion Culture, Personality, and Racial Liberalism Conclusion Notes Index About ...
... 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.
In chapter 1, I consider how juridical racialism enabled the more effective exploitation of Indian land in the late-nineteenth century, in a process Karl Marx ironically called “primitive accumulation,” by laying the legal foundation ...
... between legal history, anthropology, and “nothsuch patterns are unfolded quietly, beneath the immediate surface of recounted events.53 ing,” Laws of Development, Laws of Land Although ethno-legal rhetoric has Introduction | 21.
Laws. of. Land. Although ethno-legal rhetoric has deep roots in the Western tradition, the discourse of juridical racialism formed in the United States only in the wake of the Civil War, when a confluence of historical developments ...
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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 |