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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... argue, juridical racialism was a historically significant discourse of modernization that enabled the United States to manage its civic boundaries in ways that furthered national economic growth. In the chapters that follow, I examine ...
... arguments. The first argument is that juridical racialism formed a distinct tradition in the rhetoric of American citizenship in which racial groups were characterized in terms of legal categories and in which law was described through ...
... argument of this study is that the character of juridical racialism changed radically as a result of the development of the modern concept of culture. Because juridical racialism has mirrored contemporaneous social-scientific theories ...
... arguments that structure this study approach juridical racialism in terms of continuity rather than change. Most important, the rhetoric of juridical racialism was a discourse of modernization that, in all its forms and stages, advanced ...
... argue that juridical racialism developed in the mid-nineteenth century from a general ideological tendency of nations to characterize outsiders in legal terms, a tendency buttressed by the philosophical origins of western principles of ...
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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 |