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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... reform or Sanitary Commission activists memorably described by George Fredrickson, developmentalists were asserting their own status as individuals and groups worthy of social deference in a world of proliferating knowledge elites ...
... reforms further below, but it is relevant at this point to note that a version of Powell's juridical-racial vision was put into practice with the Dawes Act, and that this policy was a disaster.67 The goal of the Dawes Act, consistent ...
... reform efforts to extend American law over native peoples entailed a special concern that the Indian law of murder was based on the concept of “blood revenge,” avenged when one of their family members killed the offending party.70 “The ...
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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 |