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 rationality, and its legacy persists within controversies about the use of American power to advance democracy abroad. By considering the role this powerful rhetorical amalgam played in political debates and Supreme Court ...
... economic modernization at critical junctures in national history. Moreover, while juridical racialism has been an active ideological presence among a range of institutional actors, it has been especially salient among the groups I ...
... 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 fate was tied to one of the era's central dilemmas of political economy ...
... economic growth in contrast to myth's static timelessness; law's function as the basis of modernity in contrast to myth's association with savagery; and the fixed geographic attachment of societies based on law in contrast to the ...
... furthered the achievement of national economic purposes by providing an ideological circuit through which politics, culture, and the self were brought into alignment. It is a supplementary goal of this book to 10 | Introduction.
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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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