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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Most important, the rhetoric of juridical racialism was a discourse of modernization that, in all its forms and stages, advanced the constitutional authority of the federal government in ways that furthered national economic growth.
... these regulations became vulnerable to attack in federal court.41 Accordingly, the Oregon statute was challenged by the foreman of a laundry company in Portland who had been fined after he required an employee to work beyond a ...
the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant inaugurated the “assimilationist era” of federal Indian policy, when the national government sought to force Indians to model their lives on Euro-American standards of behavior, especially by ...
By contrast, the reforms of the assimilationist period were widespread and systematic, and they brought into being a series of federal programs designed to restructure the most intimate elements of native life; they employed a full ...
... political and professional practice, using a version of his developmentalism to call for comprehensive federal action in Indian affairs—action that was to focus specifically on the transformation of native property and native law.
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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 |
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |