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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... policy is maintained for two generations more, the problem will be solved; the remnant of the Indians will be saved and absorbed in modern enlightenment.65 While Powell's advocacy of assimilationist policies often was tempered by ...
... Indian policy slowly begin to change for the better, and it was not until the 1970s that American Indians truly began to recover the sovereignty that had been battered by that mighty pulverizing engine of allotment in severalty. Like ...
... policy regarding Native Americans. Noting that “the expulsion of the Indians often takes place at the present day in a regular and, as it were, a legal manner,” Tocqueville described in detail the sufferings inflicted on native peoples ...
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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 |