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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thority and rhetorical tropes from prominent contemporary theories of human variation in the social sciences, especially anthropology, a relation to the professional disciplines that marks it as a historically specific and distinct ...
Specifically, I describe the conflict between the Boasian culture concept and those theories of human difference it displaced as the field of anthropology grew into a fully professional discipline. This discussion proceeds in part as a ...
The mutual constitution of race and law assumed a qualitatively new status with the gradual emergence of professional social scientific disciplines in the United States, especially in the wake of the Civil War.
As it grew into its own as a professional discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century, then, anthropology provided a powerful institutional locus for the juridical-racial expression of the ethno-legal impulse.
As Raymond Williams has noted, the word “culture” has a tangled, hotly contested past.25 To understand the modern professional definition, it is helpful, first, to consider two prominent approaches to the term from nineteenth-century ...
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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 |