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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... Monica Moore for heroic editorial assistance at the final hour. This book is dedicated to my wife, Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, for all her love. Introduction “[T]o imagine a language,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, x | Preface.
“[T]o imagine a language,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is “to imagine a form of life.”1 This book examines how one aspect of our national life, the racial limits of American civic belonging, was imagined and brought into ...
For Arnold, civilization denoted the routinized, everyday social experience of expanding capitalism, whereas culture represented the literary and philosophical traditions of the West. Culture, wrote Arnold, was “the study and pursuit of ...
After attending high school in Germany, Brandeis enrolled in Harvard Law School (“My uncle,” he wrote, “the abolitionist, was a lawyer, and to me nothing else seemed really worth while”), and soon established an independent legal office ...
24 “That Law is the solution of the Indian problem,” wrote one advocate in the North American Review, “would seem to be a self-evident proposition.”25 Indian policy during the late-nineteenth century was in this respect self-reflexive, ...
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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 |