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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... economic growth. In the chapters that follow, I examine the role juridical racialism played in debates about the civic status of Native Americans in the 1880s, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in the 1900s, Asian immigrants in 1 Introduction.
... chapter. The second part considers how the racial views the thinker advanced were mirrored in the jurisprudence of Supreme Court decisions that affected, and in most cases diminished, the civic standing of the group. In chapter 1, I ...
... one way in which the modern concept of culture helped transform American civic life along the politically progressive lines its advocates envisioned; indeed, as I indicate in chapter 4, under the influence of the Introduction | 3.
... chapter 2, I examine how juridical racial thought helped secure better access to overseas markets in the early-twentieth century through its role in the development of the doctrine of territorial incorporation. In chapter 3, juridical ...
... chapters that follow. I first discuss the origin and nature of juridical racialism in greater detail, in doing so also placing this study in a broad scholarly context. I argue that juridical racialism developed in the mid-nineteenth ...
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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 |