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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Juridical racialism was a civic rhetoric that fused the concepts of race and law into a single idea—in which the two concepts were mutually constitutive—and that drew its principles from prominent contemporary social scientific theories ...
... founder of the Bureau of American Ethnology and advocate of the principle of unilinear social evolution, ... by the psychological and anti-essentialist principles of the Boasian culture-and-personality school of anthropology, ...
... a tendency buttressed by the philosophical origins of western principles of legality, and I characterize its study as part of a larger effort to classify the basic conceptual units of American civic identity.
In the United States, as in many other nations, for example, full citizenship long was limited to men, who were thought uniquely to possess those traits necessary for republican government, a principle both enshrined in state and ...
As a study of civic rhetoric, however, whose historical approach is influenced by principles of anthropology that trace ultimately to linguistics, its final concern lies not with the law but rather with the idea of law, ...
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Contenido
22 | |
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 |