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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... group's place in the circle of national civic life. As I will explain, juridical racialism drew its intellectual authority and rhetorical tropes from prominent contemporary theories of human variation 2 | Introduction.
... authority of the federal government in ways that furthered national economic growth. Each of the following chapters describes how a rhetoric of juridical racialism was used to manage the civic status of a particular minority group whose ...
... authority. Ethno-legal rhetoric became juridical racialism through the institutionalization and professionalization of knowledge in the service of the state, becoming at once more elaborately developed, frequently invoked, and ...
... authority. American Indians took central stage in each of these developments— those of the professions, the state, and political economy—and therefore in the emergence of juridical racialism. For the close of the Civil War and. 1. 22 the ...
... authority. By asserting a particular narrative of cultural and legal transformation, the developmentalists of Powell's day were making a claim not only to knowledge per se but also to professional knowledge. Like the Brahmins involved ...
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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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