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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... reform. Boas's antiracist commitment was guided in part by his family connection to the liberal ideals of the 1848 revolution. More personally, it was driven by his own experiences as a Jew in Bismark's Germany. During his college years ...
... reform movement and the Pendleton Act of 1883.2 Seeking to rationalize the expanding apparatus of the state, a broad class of elites sought to replace the spoils system based on party patronage with more neutral, meritocratic procedures ...
... reforms, were not interested in preserving Indian culture per se.16 A small minority of whites did seek to preserve traditional native folkways or at least to slow the pace of their destruction. But most white reformers advanced an ...
... reforms of the assimilationist period were widespread and systematic, and they brought into being a series of federal ... reform as the all-encompassing panacea” as they fought for the “purification of the Indian Bureau,” finding an ally ...
... reform and anti-slavery sentiment. Powell never received a college degree, but by participating in a number of short-term scientific projects and expeditions, he developed a reputation as an excellent naturalist and geographer—capable ...
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 |