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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... liberal ideals of the 1848 revolution. More personally, it was driven by his own experiences as a Jew in Bismark's Germany. During his college years, Boas fought several fencing duels over anti-Semitic remarks, and he bore prominent ...
... liberal, middle-class German-Jewish political activism and high culture.42 His family had moved to the United States partly in reaction to the failed revolution of 1848 and, tellingly, his first memory was “of his mother carrying food ...
... liberal government that was to be the ultimate source of coercive power. They wished to infuse the Indian self with an Anglo-Saxon vision of law and so destroy the Indian as a social fact.77 It was in this volatile political context ...
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Contenido
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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Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner Vista previa limitada - 2008 |