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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... modern intellectual life by developing powerful frameworks for cultural and phenotypic classification. Historically, it has been the preeminent intellectual field dedicated to portraying and understanding peoples who are different. As ...
... modern concept of culture or “culture concept,” because juridical racial vocabulary partook of modes of thought advocates of the culture concept sought to displace. Juridical racialism, that is, was bound to the theories of human ...
... modern anthropology, race and culture were thought to be inseparable.30 According to the widespread if often unspoken view, the social and cultural characteristics of human groups were manifestations of an essential part of their ...
... modern understanding of culture differs from older uses of the term in that culture today is severed from race. The human social variation that was the spur for the development of modern anthropology is no longer viewed as the ...
... modern American life. In addition, the story of juridical racialism suggests how the civic metamorphosis engendered in part by the culture concept might be understood as a surface change that masked a deeper continuity. When viewed from ...
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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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