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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... particularly my fellow legal historian Gregory Mark; a group of exceptional senior scholars in American studies, legal history, and law and society who supported this project through their intellectual and personal generosity, ...
By considering the role this powerful rhetorical amalgam played in political debates and Supreme Court decisions about the civic status of four minority groups ...
Most important, in the rhetorical tradition of juridical racialism, minority groups were characterized in terms of ... of legal behavior—and this characterization served to justify a group's place in the circle of national civic life.
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 consider here: academics and intellectuals, as a framework to ...
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, ...
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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 |