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 realm of political life, Boas was an anti-racist, and as a principled man of the left, he viewed scientific knowledge about race as a basis for progressive social reform. Boas's antiracist commitment was guided in part by ...
These also were crucial years in American state modernization, as evidenced by the civil service reform movement and the Pendleton Act of 1883.2 Seeking to rationalize the expanding apparatus of the state, a broad class of elites sought ...
... foundation for assimilationist-era reforms, were not interested in preserving Indian culture per se.16 A small minority of whites did seek to preserve traditional native folkways or at least to slow the pace of their destruction.
By contrast, the reforms of the assimilationist period were widespread and systematic, and they brought into being ... this historical origin.21 Assimilationist reformers “looked to civil service reform as the all-encompassing panacea” ...
Beginning in the 1850s, he took a variety of courses at Illinois College and the Illinois Institute, as well as at Oberlin College, at the time a center of Protestant social reform and anti-slavery sentiment.
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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 |