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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... concerned with the relation between law and the social sciences, and specifically the use of social scientific evidence in judicial decision-making—it is important to state my theoretical and methodological commitments from the start ...
... concerns the box and the boundaries it establishes. While acknowledging that law has its own institutional imperatives, and that there may be social facts that are distinctively legal, I believe historians ought to view law as an ...
... form. The following chapters thus blend traditional academic analysis with storytelling, but storytelling of a particular kind, concerned with examining the symbolic patterns that lie beyond the full understanding of 20 | Introduction.
... concerned with cultural-legal differences, the extent to which it attempted to assimilate native peoples socially by altering their law.23 “If the Indians are to be advanced in civilized habits,” wrote Schurz, “it is essential that they ...
... concerned with the practical administrative use of a systematic investigation of native peoples. Scientific knowledge, valuable in its own terms, would also make possible the practical management of Indian affairs and the sound ...
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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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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |