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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... groups within conceptions of American civic identity, especially the groups David A. Hollinger has termed “ethno-racial blocs.”12 Such scholarly attention to race is hardly surprising. As Edmund S. Morgan revealed thirty years ago, the ...
... Groups achieve a feeling of solidarity in part through the exclusion of outsiders, typically justified by the belief that those excluded lack some essential normative quality that members of the group share, for instance racial descent ...
... group identity in legal terms, moreover, has equally expressed itself in its mirror image. In Western literature, the ... groups and nations to describe outsiders with what might be called broadly ethno-legal rhetoric—to distinguish it ...
... groups that were said to manifest the absence of its qualities, dark-skinned peoples lacking the personal attributes central to legal civilization. These far-flung, often primitive communities gave material form to the ideas against ...
... groups were manifestations of an essential part of their collective being, frequently of a set of in-born and ... group. What we today call culture was not 12 | Introduction.
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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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