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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... group of exceptional senior scholars in American studies, legal history, and law and society who supported this project through their intellectual and personal generosity, especially JeanChristophe Agnew, Rogers M. Smith, William E ...
... groups in four successive historical periods, I seek to reveal not only its significance for the history of American citizenship, a task that opens a window onto the influence of the modern concept of culture in American law, but also ...
... groups were characterized in terms of their relative legal capacity—their ability or inability to uphold legality as a general ideal and to follow specific forms of legal behavior—and this characterization served to justify a group's ...
... groups I consider here: academics and intellectuals, as a framework to understand human variation; political officials, as a tool with which to advance generally exclusionary policies of citizenship; and the judiciary, as an underlying ...
... group whose fate was tied to one of the era's central dilemmas of political economy, which was resolved through the judicial reaffirmation or expansion of federal power. In chapter 1, I consider how juridical racialism enabled the more ...
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 |