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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Minorities—United States—Politics and government. 4. United States—Race relations. 5. United States—Politics and government. I. Title. E184.A1W344 2006 323.17309—dc22 2005032447 New York University Press books are printed on acid-free ...
Americans without Law addresses students and scholars in American studies, political science, history, law, and related fields in the humanities and social sciences. Although it appears after the publication of my book Black Trials: ...
By considering the role this powerful rhetorical amalgam played in political debates and Supreme Court decisions about the civic status of four minority groups ...
... human variation; political officials, as a tool with which to advance generally exclusionary policies of citizenship; and the judiciary, as an underlying structure of jurisprudence in constitutional and statutory adjudication.
Each of the following chapters describes how a rhetoric of juridical racialism was used to manage the civic status of a particular minority group whose fate was tied to one of the era's central dilemmas of political economy, ...
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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 |