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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... ethnology. This intellectual synergy was evident throughout Morgan's works on the Iroquois and their kinship systems (his League of the Iroquois [1851] and Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family [1871] remain classics ...
... ethnology to chart the course of evolutionary social change, then one could create a map of human historical laws just as one could create a diagram of the laws of the physical world. And with this map, one could formulate legislation ...
... Ethnology was devoted to collecting and classifying. A government of order could only be a government of imposed federal law. Justice Matthews next turned to whether the 1868 treaty and 1877 statute could be said to override the General ...
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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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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |