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. |
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... , especially the groups David A. Hollinger has termed “ethno-racial blocs.”12 Such scholarly attention to race is hardly surprising. As Edmund S. Morgan revealed thirty years ago, the fundamental ideas upon 6 | Introduction.
The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner. S. Morgan revealed thirty years ago, the fundamental ideas upon which the United States was founded were created under conditions of African chattel slavery, and the nation has been ...
... Morgan and that would later form the conceptual and rhetorical anchor of Crow Dog and Kagama. 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 ...
... Morgan, whom I discuss below. Above all, developmentalists sought to classify human social facts by placing them in teleological order. Defining “science” as the “discernment, discrimination, and classification of facts, and the ...
... Morgan, often described as the father of American anthropology, and one of the most influential practitioners in the history of the discipline.48 He was born in 1818 in Aurora, New York and studied at Union College, whose Presbyterian ...
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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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