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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... Monica Moore for heroic editorial assistance at the final hour. This book is dedicated to my wife, Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, for all her love. Introduction “[T]o imagine a language,” wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, x | Preface.
... wrote the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, is “to imagine a form of life.”1 This book examines how one aspect of our national life, the racial limits of American civic belonging, was imagined and brought into being through a culturally ...
... , everyday social experience of expanding capitalism, whereas culture represented the literary and philosophical traditions of the West. Culture, wrote Arnold, was “the study and pursuit of perfection . . . Introduction | 11.
... wrote, “the abolitionist, was a lawyer, and to me nothing else seemed really worth while”), and soon established an independent legal office in Boston.43 Over years of successful practice, he came to embody the ideal of the socially ...
... wrote Schurz, “it is essential that they be accustomed to the government of law, with the restraints it imposes and the protection it affords.”24 “That Law is the solution of the Indian problem,” wrote one advocate in the North American ...
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 |