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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... Japanese Exclusion Culture, Personality, and Racial Liberalism Conclusion Notes Index About the Author ix 22 2 51 3 81 4 107 131 135 185 197 Preface This book contributes to the literature on American conceptions vii Contents.
... Japanese immigrants under the Immigration Act of 1924.3 And in chapter 4, I examine Gunnar Myrdal, author of An American Dilemma (1944), a thinker broadly influenced by the psychological and anti-essentialist principles of the Boasian ...
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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 |