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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... , becoming at once more elaborately developed, frequently invoked, and ideologically significant. I address this social and institutional context more specifically over the course of the chapters that follow, Introduction | 9.
... chapters that follow, and I pay special attention to the relation of juridical racialism to the emerging discipline of anthropology. For since its distant origins, first spurred by European contact with primitive peoples in the ...
... chapter 1; Daniel Garrison Brinton, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who appears briefly in chapter 2 as an advocate of white racial supremacy and an academic ally of Henry Cabot Lodge (against whose ...
... chapter 4, footnote eleven of Brown made important reference to a variety of social scientific studies of the nature of racial prejudice and the effect of racially segregated schools on the “hearts and minds” of black children. In the ...
... chapters, I merely take as fundamental the straightforward principle that juridical racialism connects anthropological social science and legal doctrine through an underlying set of assumptions shared by both, a common way of thinking ...
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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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