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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... jurisprudence embodied in Brandeis's strategy in Muller: that of influence through advocacy. In the model developed from this advocate's vision, social science is divided from law by an institutional fence, though the boundary can be ...
... jurisprudence conceives of the relation between the two disciplines as a relation between two social systems, as a causal-functional link. A cultural study views the two as integrated in a logico-meaningful way, through a “unity of ...
... jurisprudence by claiming that the display was unscientific. Such evolutionary classifications could not be made a priori, Boas argued; each culture “can be understood only by studying its productions as a whole,” in a single ...
... jurisprudence. In this legal-historical scheme, scholars could lay out the property laws of various societies along a scale of evolutionary change, just as museums of the period might lay out knives to illustrate the course of human ...
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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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