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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... Spanish-American War The Biological Politics of Japanese Exclusion Culture, Personality, and Racial Liberalism Conclusion Notes Index About the Author ix 22 2 51 3 81 4 107 131 135 185 197 Preface This book contributes to the literature ...
... Spanish-American War.2 In chapter 3, Iconsider Madison Grant, popular champion of racial eugenics as well as a virulent, racialist theory of European and American history, and Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), which lay the basis for ...
... American policy for Tocqueville, in this respect, contrasted with the naked aggression and force used by Spanish conquerors. The Spanish, he wrote, had “pursued the Indians with bloodhounds, like wild beasts; they sacked the New World ...
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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 |