Americans Without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship

by Mark S. Weiner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814793657
• ISBN13: 9780814793657
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"