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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... In the chapters that follow, I examine the role juridical racialism played in debates about the civic status of Native Americans in the 1880s, Puerto Ricans and Filipinos in the 1900s, Asian immigrants in 1 Introduction.
... Asian immigrants in the 1920s, and black Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. Each chapter is divided into two parts. The first part explores the life and work of a public thinker who followed a particular mode of racial or anthropological ...
... Asian immigration to the United States on the basis of national plenary immigration authority. And in chapter 4, in the wake of the Boasian revolution, juridical racialism helped facilitate the expansion of postwar consumer society by ...
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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 |