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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... onto the influence of the modern concept of culture in American law, but also its centrality to the linked history of American state development—a story, in turn, based on a transformation in conceptions and practices of the self.
The second argument of this study is that the character of juridical racialism changed radically as a result of the development of the modern concept of culture. Because juridical racialism has mirrored contemporaneous social-scientific ...
... structuring his life according to those masculine attributes of “infinitely competent responsibility and self-cohering discipline” characteristic of modern legal identity.6 John Wesley Powell, navigating the Colorado River with only ...
Most important, modern law has been seen as the antithesis of the primitive phenomenon of myth, the collective stories that express the cosmology of a society and justify its forms and institutions. Law has been defined, especially, ...
For, as Fitzpatrick further argues, the philosophical contrast that lies at the foundation of modern conceptions of legality was grounded in the world-historical force of European colonialism. In this setting, law established its ...
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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 |