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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... and to undertake a cartographic analysis. The trip marked the start of a formative intellectual change. Struck by the warmth and hospitality of Eskimo society, Boas became increasingly interested in general questions Introduction | 13.
... intellectual premises underpinning the activities of groups such as the Immigration Restriction League.36 This liberal commitment was reflected in Boas's anthropological work as well. In the late nineteenth century, anthropology was ...
... 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 anthropologists and ...
... of cultural structure, in which each field manifests homologous intellectual patterns in different institutional contexts. This interdisciplinary approach bears upon the traditional division of legal 18 | Introduction.
... intellectual and organizational foundation for assimilationist-era reforms, were not interested in preserving Indian culture per se.16 A small minority of whites did seek to preserve traditional native folkways or at least to slow the ...
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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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