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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The first argument is that juridical racialism formed a distinct tradition in the rhetoric of American citizenship in which racial groups were characterized in terms of legal categories and in which law was described through the lens of ...
I indicate in chapter 4, under the influence of the concept of culture, the tradition of juridical racialism came largely to a close. The final two arguments that structure this study approach juridical racialism in terms of continuity ...
The tradition of juridical racialism in American civic life is not sui generis.15 The mutual constitution of the idea of race and the concept of law is implicit in the life of most nations. Groups achieve a feeling of solidarity in part ...
... categories to describe outsiders, then, the historic foundation of juridical racialism, draws on the discursive tradition of Western law itself, which from its inception has been associated with principles of racial opposition.
... rhetoric into the more specific discourse of juridical racialism, the full professionalization of anthropology that was achieved with the ascendancy of the culture concept marked the decline of juridical racialism as a tradition.
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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 |