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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... century, a way of speaking and thinking that I call “juridical racialism.” In sketching the contours of this civic language, I seek to highlight not only its role in the transformation of what historian David A. Hollinger has called ...
... centuries, though it has gone largely unexamined and unnamed until now. Juridical racialism was a civic rhetoric that fused the concepts of race and law into a single idea—in which the two concepts were mutually constitutive—and that ...
... century ethnology and the intellectual fields and frameworks against which anthropology set itself as it grew into its own as a professional discipline. These included most prominently theories of unilinear social evolution, in which ...
... century, in a process Karl Marx ironically called “primitive accumulation,” by laying the legal foundation for the Indian plenary power doctrine.5 In chapter 2, I examine how juridical racial thought helped secure better access to ...
... 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 legality, and I characterize its study as part of a larger ...
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22 | |
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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