Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of CitizenshipNYU Press, 2006 - 197 páginas Americans 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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... tribes into a people and, ultimately, a nation, through their acceptance of the law brought from Mt. Sinai—an acceptance that made them, classically, a “people of law.”17 While Christian thinkers would later Introduction | 7.
... tribe to Indian identity grew from the drive toward national economic expansion.6 In the following chapter, I consider the role juridical racialism played in the assimilationist era, focusing specifically on the period between 1883 and ...
... 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 such as the participants ...
... tribe as a presence in native experience. To this end, they sought the abolition of customary tribal law—the elimination of tribal jurisdiction over civil and criminal matters—and its replacement with American substantive and procedural ...
... 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, Laws ...
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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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