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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... legal matter of rights but also one of identity and cultural acceptance.) In ... government, a principle both enshrined in state and national laws, such as ... ethno-racial blocs.”12 Such scholarly attention to race is hardly surprising ...
... ethno-legal rhetoric—to distinguish it for a moment from its more particular form of juridical racialism—also derives from the historical development of the idea of law itself. For modern law in the West was founded on a series of ...
... law itself, which from its inception has been associated with principles of racial opposition. While ethno-legal rhetoric is a general and long-standing phenomenon, juridical racialism is historically specific and modern. The mutual ...
... ethno-legal impulse. It offered the primary body of knowledge and analysis from which the civic vocabulary of juridical racialism was constructed through a cultural operation of Lévi-Straussian bricolage.22 Through its connection with ...
... ethnography, cultural anthropology is devoted to developing integrated observations of individual societies and forging ... ethno-legal rhetoric into the more specific discourse of juridical racialism, the full professionalization of ...
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 |