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.
... institutional locus for the juridical-racial expression of the ethno-legal impulse. It offered the primary body of ... institutions central to the liberal state. More important, juridical racialism played a role in mediating and ...
... institution of potlatch. In 1887, he emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City to help edit the ... institutional affiliation he maintained until his death in 1942, garnering numerous professional awards, serving as ...
... institutional one—the intellectual basis for the future of anthropology as a professional field. This claim of divergence, expressed most famously in The Mind of Primitive Man (1911), brought him into conflict with a number of prominent ...
... institutional fence, though the boundary can be breached when the law reaches out its hand and takes social science over the divide. Social science is linked to legal doctrine, that is, when it is directly used by courts, either for ...
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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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