Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of CitizenshipAmericans 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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Juridical racialism was present throughout public discourse in the wake of the Civil War, much as public language is now saturated with principles of economic rationality, and its legacy persists within controversies about the use of ...
... the memory of the Civil Rights Movement and the rise of one of its academic legacies of the 1980s, the intellectual and political banner of multiculturalism, brought fresh interest to the ways in which racial minorities have been ...
The mutual constitution of race and law assumed a qualitatively new status with the gradual emergence of professional social scientific disciplines in the United States, especially in the wake of the Civil War.
Although ethno-legal rhetoric has deep roots in the Western tradition, the discourse of juridical racialism formed in the United States only in the wake of the Civil War, when a confluence of historical developments created the ground ...
They were humanitarians who sought to employ the civil arm of national government to annihilate the Indian way of life. Their reigning rhetorical trope was the individual, the solitary economic self. As Indian Affairs Commissioner John ...
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Contenido
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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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |