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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... societies and forging holistic theories of human variation and social experience in its material and symbolic dimensions. The history of juridical racialism intersects specifically with the most significant innovation in the field, the ...
... society.”28 Yet, as historian George W. Stocking, Jr. notes, Tylor's definition of culture was unitary. In the framework of Primitive Culture, there was a single phenomenon known as “culture” (never “cultures” in the plural), which ...
... Societies are seen instead as built on mutable, learned systems of meaning, and these symbolic systems—cultures—are seen as the basis of human difference ... society, Boas became increasingly interested in general questions Introduction | 13.
The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship Mark S. Weiner. tality of Eskimo society, Boas became increasingly interested in general questions of human variation and the history of particular social groups. After studying a band of Pacific ...
... society they encountered on its own terms and refrain from judgments of value in order to understand the society's symbolic intricacies, which he identified as the primary object of scientific study. In this respect, the divergence ...
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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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