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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... federal government in ways that furthered national 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 ...
... 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 tenhour day. The law was upheld by the state high court ...
... federal Indian policy, when the national government sought to force Indians to model their lives on Euro-American standards of behavior, especially by encouraging them to become independent agriculturalists.4 In this context, the newly ...
... federal programs designed to restructure the most intimate elements of native life; they employed a full range of national government capacities to tame the savage self. These programs, moreover, relied on an increasingly professional ...
... federal action in Indian affairs—action that was to focus specifically on the transformation of native property and native law. An extended passage from Powell's writing reveals the ways in which his concern for Indian people, his ...
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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 |