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Americans Without La The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship [Paperback]

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  • Category: Books (Law)
  • Author:  Weiner, Mark S.
  • Author:  Weiner, Mark S.
  • ISBN-10:  0814793657
  • ISBN-10:  0814793657
  • ISBN-13:  9780814793657
  • ISBN-13:  9780814793657
  • Publisher:  NYU Press
  • Publisher:  NYU Press
  • Pages:  205
  • Pages:  205
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Binding:  Paperback
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2008
  • Pub Date:  01-May-2008
  • SKU:  0814793657-11-MPOD
  • SKU:  0814793657-11-MPOD
  • Item ID: 101382463
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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 turn, Americans as a whole by examining the work of anthropological social scientists who developed distinctive ways of understanding racial and legal identity, and through decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that put these ethno-legal views into practice. Combining history, anthropology, and legal analysis, the book argues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences, the growth of national state power, economic modernization, and modern practices of the self.

Commendably and profoundly, the author maps the numerous uncharted waters of racial discrimination showing how anthropology and culture intermix with law to form wide-ranging and lasting policies of exclusion. A rich and exceptionally clear account of the meaning-making context and constitution of citizenship. An enthralling mixture of personages and cases that reveals much about the intimate combining of law and American imperialism, including the complicities of scholarship. Mark Weiner provides a rare and radical insight into the racial structures of American law. Reading this racial history through the rhetoric of case law decisionsjuridical racialismprovides a dramatic sense of the anthropological scope of what law has done and potentially continues to do. It addresses a powerful topic. It is a concepl“ó
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