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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... 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 racialism was implicated in the public ...
... professional discipline. This discussion proceeds in part as a sketch of Boas himself, anticipating the biographical features of chapters 1–4. Finally, I discuss the interpretive perspective and method that guides my analysis ...
... professional social scientific disciplines in the United States, especially in the wake of the Civil War. The emergence of modern social science transformed the mutual constitution of race and law by placing it within a new matrix of ...
... professional discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century, then, anthropology provided a powerful institutional locus for the juridical-racial expression of the ethno-legal impulse. It offered the primary body of knowledge ...
... professional definition, it is helpful, first, to consider two prominent approaches to the term from nineteenth-century England: those of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and early anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Tylor.26 In Culture and ...
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 |