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 ...
... racialist theory of European and American history, and Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), which lay the basis for the exclusion of Japanese immigrants under the Immigration Act of 1924.3 And in chapter 4, I examine Gunnar Myrdal, ...
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 ...
In Odysseus's encounter with the Cyclops, in a passage that has an important place in the history of critical theory, Homer describes the one-eyed beast his hero will defeat as “lawless” (notably, the defeat will come through a trick of ...
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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 |