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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... particularly my fellow legal historian Gregory Mark; a group of exceptional senior scholars in American studies, legal history, and law and society who supported this project through their intellectual and personal generosity, ...
These included most prominently theories of unilinear social evolution, in which all societies are classified according to a single continuum of upward historical progress, and those of racial essentialism, which attribute cultural ...
And in chapter 4, in the wake of the Boasian revolution, juridical racialism helped facilitate the expansion of postwar consumer society by supporting the cause of southern desegregation, which was made possible by the expansion of ...
In Western literature, the characterization of outsiders, especially from primitive societies, as lacking the capacity for law ... the collective stories that express the cosmology of a society and justify its forms and institutions.
... understand their national identity or that philosophers might employ to develop arguments about the nature of law and society, juridical racialism became a discourse actively constituting social, political, and psychological life.
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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 |