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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The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner. cording to the needs of the new world he envisioned. Each inscribed the social dynamics and institutional imperatives of modernity into the deepest regions of his own self, structuring ...
... Juridical racialism was one such language of national identity, one ... juridical racialism advances the more general historical project outlined by Fredric ... racial blocs.”12 Such scholarly attention to race is hardly surprising. As ...
... racial minorities have been drawn inside or excluded from the “circle of we.”14Whatever the cause, the status of racial minorities in civic life has become one of the driving themes of contemporary academic discourse. This book ...
The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner. classically, a “people of law.”17 While Christian thinkers would later draw on the theology of Paul to distinguish between a people of law and a “people of grace,” the Christian ...
... law established its identity by repeatedly opposing itself to racial 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 ...
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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 |