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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... theories of human variation, especially those associated with the developing field of anthropology. Juridical racialism was present throughout public discourse in the wake of the Civil War, much as public language is now saturated with ...
... theory of European and American history, and Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), which lay the basis for the ... theories of human variation 2 | Introduction.
... 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 expression of the tendency of many national communities to ...
... theories of human difference it displaced as the field of anthropology grew into a fully professional discipline. This discussion proceeds in part as a sketch of Boas himself, anticipating the biographical features of chapters 1–4 ...
... theory, Homer describes the one-eyed beast his hero will defeat as “lawless” (notably, the defeat will come through a trick of Odysseus's own self-abnegation).18 The tendency of groups and nations to describe outsiders with what might ...
Contenido
22 | |
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 |