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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... anthropologist Franz Boas entered U.S. constitutional law and influenced American conceptions of national identity. Americans without Law addresses students and scholars in American studies, political science, history, law, and related ...
... anthropology. Juridical racialism was present throughout public discourse in the wake of the Civil War, much as public language is now saturated with principles of economic rationality, and its legacy persists within controversies about ...
... anthropology), alongside one of the Insular Cases (1901–1904), which defined the civic status of the territories the United States acquired through the Spanish-American War.2 In chapter 3, Iconsider Madison Grant, popular champion of ...
... anthropology, a relation to the professional disciplines that marks it as a historically specific and distinct expression of the tendency of many national communities to describe outsiders as peoples without law. While juridical ...
... anthropological thinker I examine was an anti-traditionalist modernizer at the level of both society and the human person, an individual who attempted not only to further the progressive advancement of social and economic life, but also ...
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 |