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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 70
... racial character of civic belonging in the United States was understood from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century, a way of speaking and thinking that I call “juridical racialism.” In sketching the contours of this ...
... Juridical racialism was a civic rhetoric that fused the concepts of race and law into a single idea—in which the two concepts were mutually constitutive—and that drew its principles from prominent contemporary social scientific theories ...
... racial or anthropological thought and, accordingly, promoted a specific juridical-racial vision of the group whose status is at issue in the chapter. The second part considers how the racial views the thinker advanced were mirrored in ...
... law. While juridical racialism was implicated in the public perception and civic status of most racial minorities in the United States, not all its rhetorical manifestations were equally important. Those I examine in this study were ...
... juridical racial thought helped secure better access to overseas markets in the early-twentieth century through its role in the development of the doctrine of territorial incorporation. In chapter 3, juridical racialism served the goal ...
Contenido
22 | |
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |