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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... native peoples grew from an abiding interest in Indian languages and culture.43 In “a very few years,” he warned, “it will be impossible to study our North American Indians in their primitive condition except from recorded history. For ...
... Indians themselves. . . . a thorough investigation of North American ethnology would be of great value in our Indian Office.”44 Just as the Geological Survey was to provide knowledge of rivers, mountains, and alluvial valleys for a ...
... Native American societies. He was particularly interested in the Iroquois, and he founded a social and academic club ... Indians, bringing his legal training and worldview to bear upon his ethnology. This intellectual synergy was evident ...
... native peoples: first, he wrote, the “removal of the Indians” from tribal lands was “the first step to be taken in their civilization” because these lands represented “everything most sacred to Indian society”; second, “ownership of ...
... American Indians had already been fought and won, but with the Dawes Act the war against native peoples continued with the weapons of the rule of law. Over the next ten years, Indians lost 75 percent of their lands, over ninety million ...
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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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