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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... institutional actors, it has been especially salient among the groups I consider here: academics and intellectuals, as a framework to understand human variation; political officials, as a tool with which to advance generally ...
... institutions of the state. I illustrate this bond, the final framework that structures this book, through interpretation and presentation of individual biographies and the conceptions and practices of the self it reveals—a bond for ...
... institutional imperatives of modernity into the deepest regions of his own self, structuring his life according to those masculine attributes of “infinitely competent responsibility and self-cohering discipline” characteristic of modern ...
... institutions drew the boundaries of the American nation, with which groups were excluded, or included, and when and how. As a study of civic rhetoric, however, whose historical approach is influenced by principles of anthropology that ...
... institutions. Law has been defined, especially, as a form of governance that is the obverse of myth, and on that basis has been lauded for the transparent rationality it poises against myth's hidden logic of symbol and pattern. But as ...
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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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