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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In the chapters that follow, I examine the role juridical racialism played in debates about the civic status of Native Americans in the 1880s, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in the 1900s, Asian immigrants in 1 Introduction.
... Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, alongside legal decisions supporting the constitutionality of the Dawes Act, which subdivided native lands during the assimilationist era of U.S. Indian policy.
... to a chaotic pre-creation”—one embodied in the life of native peoples in America.20 That ethno-legal formulation has been common (“in the beginning,” John Locke would similarly note, “all the World was America”), a standard feature ...
... and material culture; indeed, American anthropologists first developed their comprehensive theories of society and built their professional discipline with the raw material they found in the world of native peoples.
John Wesley Powell and the Evolution of Property From the presidency of Andrew Jackson until roughly the start of the 1870s, U.S. policy toward native peoples centered on moving Indians west of the Mississippi, driving them onto ...
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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 |