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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... anthropology grew into a fully professional discipline. This discussion proceeds in part as a sketch of Boas himself, anticipating the biographical features of chapters 1–4. Finally, I discuss the interpretive perspective and method ...
... anthropology and grounded in narrative. Nations are based on myths. The “imagined community” of the United States is like that of any other nation in being grounded in often tacit beliefs about the meaning and purpose of the state ...
... anthropology that trace ultimately to linguistics, its final concern lies not with the law but rather with the idea of law, and not with race but rather with its conceptualization, and with how the mutual constitution of those two ...
... anthropology. For since its distant origins, first spurred by European contact with primitive peoples in the sixteenth century, anthropology has concerned itself with the causes and character of human variation, with what would become ...
... anthropology (as distinct from the other main branch of the discipline, physical anthropology, and the subfields of linguistic anthropology and archeology).24 Closely tied with the practice of ethnography, cultural anthropology is ...
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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 |