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Author Weiner, Mark S

Title Americans Without Law : the Racial Boundaries of Citizenship
Published New York : NYU Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents Preface; Introduction; 1 Laws of Development, Laws of Land; 2 Teutonic Constitutionalism and the Spanish-American War; 3 The Biological Politics of Japanese Exclusion; 4 Culture, Personality, and Racial Liberalism; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author
Summary 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. Weiner reveals the significance of juridical racialism for each group and, in tu
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Subject Minorities -- United States -- Politics and government
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
Minorities -- Government policy -- United States
Minorities -- Government policy.
Minorities -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Minorities -- Politics and government.
Politics and government
Race relations.
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140410
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814784709
0814784704