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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... 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 persons owned lands or houses in his own right ...
... tribes and ultimately afford great relief to the dominant race. A system of complete registration by clans and by families as they are known to civilized men should be made, and record kept of births and deaths, and the line of ...
... tribes. That doctrine asserted that Congressional authority over natives was absolute: not only did Congress hold power over indigenous peoples above and against individual states, but that power also was more or less unlimited. The ...
... tribes were said entirely to lack such interlocking legal mechanisms. As in the case of the Philippines, examined in chapter 2, the principle underlying white concerns about Indian crime and criminal administration was that natives were ...
... tribes, a custom codified in § 2146 of the General Crimes Act of 1817.80 The act extended federal authority over crimes committed on Indian lands, but it made an exception for crimes committed by one Indian against another. Accordingly ...
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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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