Americans Without Law : the Racial Boundaries of Citizenship.

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiner, Mark S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Temas:
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
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (207 pages)
ISBN:9780814784709
0814784704

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