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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... Morgan's real passion lay outside the law, in the study of Native American societies. He was particularly interested ... Morgan devoted himself full time to his passion for Indians, bringing his legal training and worldview to bear upon ...
... Morgan, “but still not sufficient to develop a strong sentiment in relation to inheritance.”54 For those in barbarism's middle stages, the “territorial domain still belonged to the tribe in common; but a portion was now set apart ...
... Morgan's theoretical framework was that it was well suited to advance his optimistic dream of scientific social management. In particular, Morgan's developmentalism understood all peoples to be capable of legal-cultural transformation ...
... Morgan's scheme served him well. Making claims to scientific knowledge of history (rather than to metaphysical, romantic, or moral ways of knowing), Morgan's social evolutionary framework could advance the goals of a professional class ...
... Morgan's legal anthropology and of the Dawes Act, but crime. The assimilationist-era reform efforts to extend American law over native peoples entailed a special concern that the Indian law of murder was based on the concept of “blood ...
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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 |