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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... territorial domain still belonged to the tribe in common; but a portion was now set apart . . . [and] divided among the several gentes, or communities of persons who resided in the same pueblo”—but, Morgan emphasized, “[t]hat any ...
... Territory one afternoon in 1881.78 The two parties embodied opposite poles of Indian responses to the United States in the late-nineteenth century. One was named Kan-gi-shun-ca or Crow Dog. Crow Dog was one in a line of medicine men ...
... territorial court. There, under federal law, Kan-gi-shun-ca was sentenced to hang.81 As with so much else in United States history, the words of Alexis de Tocqueville are relevant to Kan-gi-shun-ca's case. In Democracy in America (1835 ...
... territorial court's assertion of power and, in this sense, the Court's decision did uphold the authority of Indian criminal law above and against the law of the United States. But the Court reached its decision not out of respect for ...
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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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