Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of CitizenshipNYU Press, 2006 - 197 pages 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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... Indians visiting Berlin in 1885, he sailed for British Columbia to undertake fieldwork among the Kwakiutl, famed for the institution of potlatch. In 1887, he emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City to help edit the ...
... American state modernization, as evidenced by the civil service reform movement and the Pendleton Act of 1883.2 Seeking to ... American Indians took central stage in each of these developments— those of the professions, the state, and ...
... Indian policy, when the national government sought to force Indians to model their lives on Euro-American standards of behavior, especially by encouraging them to become independent agriculturalists.4 In this context, the newly ...
... native peoples centered on moving Indians west of the Mississippi, driving them onto reservations with the threat of military force.10 This was a policy of separation, one that fortified the physical boundaries between Indians and ...
... native peoples socially by altering their law.23 “If the Indians are to be advanced in civilized habits,” wrote ... American Review, “would seem to be a self-evident proposition.”25 Indian policy during the late-nineteenth century was in ...
Contents
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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 |