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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... vision of national scientific organization into practice as the founder and director of the Bureau of American Ethnology.37 Chartered by Congress in 1879, the Bureau of American Ethnology, or BAE, had been charged with a mission to, in ...
... vision of permanent juridical-racial difference. He did not argue that races manifest the capacity or incapacity for property-holding on the basis of their biology. Instead, as a social developmentalist, an advocate of evolutionary ...
... vision of social plasticity, that is to say, Morgan's Ancient Society and its juridicalracial worldview were well suited to bind statecraft to sociology, to become part of the knowledge of the natural world Powell had always used to ...
... vision may have differed in some aspects, largely temporal, from the more extreme assimilationists of his time, but its implications were fundamentally similar. I discuss other assimilationist-era Indian reforms further below, but it is ...
... vision of order and legality—the Dawes Act claimed to be an instrument of enlightenment. And like so many manifestations of the Enlightenment itself, in the Indian country of Major Powell's America, a dream of reason became its precise ...
Contenido
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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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