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Book SynopsisArgues that the story of juridical racialism shows how race and citizenship served as a nexus for the professionalization of the social sciences
Trade ReviewCommendably 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. * New York Law Review *
A rich and exceptionally clear account of the meaning-making context and constitution of citizenship. -- Christine Harrington,Institute for Law and Society, New York University
An enthralling mixture of personages and cases that reveals much about the intimate combining of law and American imperialism, including the complicities of scholarship. -- Peter Fitzpatrick,Birkbeck School of Law, University of London
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. -- Peter Goodrich,Cardozo School of Law
It addresses a powerful topic. It is a conceptually creative piece of scholarship, forged from a sophisticated interdisciplinary viewpoint. * The Law and Politics Book Review *
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction 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
