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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... constitutional litigation. Significantly, the brief also became a staple of constitutional scholarship. It did so, however, not so much in immediate reaction to Muller, but fifty years later, in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of ...
... Constitution granted Congress in its dealings with Indian tribes. That doctrine asserted that Congressional authority over natives was absolute: not only did Congress hold power over indigenous peoples above and against individual ...
... constitutional and statutory legitimacy. After Crow Dog was sentenced to die, his counsel petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, and the Supreme Court granted certiorari to consider the matter. The issue at bar was whether the Dakota ...
... constitutional reach.85 This assertion of broad national power through its specific abnegation was underwritten by juridical-racial principles of the kind Powell advanced. The opinion in Crow Dog was written by Justice Stanley Matthews ...
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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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