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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... and other collective identities on shared legal commitment has deep roots in the West, tracing back at least to the ancient Israelites, who were transformed from a collection of seminomadic tribes into a people and, ultimately, ...
The assimilationist effort to destroy collective regimes of property ownership and the centrality of the tribe to Indian identity grew from the drive toward national economic expansion.6 In the following chapter, I consider the role ...
... government to Indian tribes—that all indigenous peoples would “participate fully in the nation's institutions”—would at last be fulfilled.14 This promise was not motivated by a commitment to social or cultural pluralism.15 Activists ...
17 To foster such individualism, reformers attempted first and foremost to destroy the tribe as a presence in native experience. To this end, they sought the abolition of customary tribal law—the elimination of tribal jurisdiction over ...
... tribes in common, while tenement houses were owned jointly by their occupants.”53 Among peoples in the lower stage of barbarism, the “variety and amount of property were greater than in savagery,” thought 32 | Laws of Development, ...
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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 |