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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... Homo Asiasticus, Homo Afer, and Homo Americanus, a classification further elaborated by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in “On the Natural Variety of Mankind” (1775), which established the Caucasian, Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, ...
As a youth, Boas was drawn to the natural and physical sciences, and after completing studies in physics, he became a professor of geography at the University of Berlin. In 1883, he visited Baffin Island in the ...
The Supreme Court at the time was deeply influenced by a group of jurists committed to fostering a jurisprudence of natural rights. In this “liberty of contract” tradition, statutes were scrutinized for whether they accorded with the ...
As a son in a family whose prosperity and even survival depended on reliable knowledge of the environment, he developed the practical interest in natural history that became the driving force of his career. He became sensitive to ways ...
... coming to know on a grander scale how the human will could shape the natural world, and how detailed knowledge of it was necessary for that will to triumph.28 If the republic were to be victorious on the battlefield, ...
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Contenido
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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 |