Americans Without Law

Mark S. Weiner is Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law, Newark. He is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste, winner of the American Bar Association's 2005 Silver Gavel Award.

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. (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)

• PrefaceIntroduction 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