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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My aim is to depict a specific language through which the 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 ...
I call that language “juridical racialism,” and I believe it was a basic feature of the history of American citizenship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, though it has gone largely unexamined and unnamed until now.
In chapter 1, I consider how juridical racialism enabled the more effective exploitation of Indian land in the late-nineteenth century, in a process Karl Marx ironically called “primitive accumulation,” by laying the legal foundation ...
In the late nineteenth century, anthropology was torn between its amateur heritage and its future status as a professional discipline.37 Boas was a partisan of the scientific professionals, demanding that the field be guided by detailed ...
Institutionally, moreover, the late-nineteenth century witnessed the marked expansion and modernization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, particularly with the creation of the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1869 and the increasingly ...
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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 |