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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... Supreme Court decisions about the civic status of four minority groups in four successive historical periods, I seek to reveal not only its significance for the history of American citizenship, a task that opens a window onto the ...
... Supreme Court decisions that affected, and in most cases diminished, the civic standing of the group. In chapter 1, I examine John Wesley Powell, founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear ...
... Supreme Court decision of Muller v. Oregon (1908).40 Muller concerned a maximum hours law enacted to protect women ... Supreme Court's decision in Lochner v. New York (1905), which held a law limiting the working hours of bakers to be an ...
... Supreme Court at the time was deeply influenced by a group of jurists committed to fostering a jurisprudence of natural rights. In this “liberty of contract” tradition, statutes were scrutinized for whether they accorded with the ...
... Supreme Court, the final outcome of which was the Dawes General Allotment Act, which subdivided communal Indian lands and allotted them to individual owners.7 The Court's contributions to this dialogue were its decisions in Ex parte ...
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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 |