Author: Doug Coulson File Type: pdf Explores the role of rhetoric and the racial classification of Asian American immigrants in the early twentieth century. From 1870 to 1940, racial eligibility for naturalization in the United States was limited to free white persons and aliens of African nativity and persons of African descent, and many interpreted these restrictions to reflect a policy of Asian exclusion based on the conclusion that Asians were neither white nor African. Because the distinction between white and Asian was considerably unstable, however, those charged with the interpretation and implementation of the naturalization act faced difficult racial classification questions. Through archival research and a close reading of the arguments contained in the documents of the US Bureau of Naturalization, especially those documents that discussed challenges to racial eligibility for naturalization, Doug Coulson demonstrates that the strategy of foregrounding shared external threats to the nation as a means of transcending perceived racial divisions was often more important to racial classification than legal doctrine. He argues that this was due to the rapid shifts in the nations enmities and alliances during the early twentieth century and the close relationship between race, nation, and sovereignty. Doug Coulson is Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. **About the Author Doug Coulson is Assistant Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.

Author: Carl Schmitt File Type: pdf Political Theology II is Carl Schmitts last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), this is Schmitts most theological reflection on Christianity and its concept of sovereignty following the Second Vatican Council. At a time of increasing visibility of religion in public debates and a realization that Schmitt is the major and most controversial political theorist of the twentieth century, this last book sets a new agenda for political theology today. The crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century led to an increased interest in the study of crises in an age of extremes - an age upon which Carl Schmitt left his indelible watermark. In Political Theology II, first published in 1970, a long journey comes to an end which began in 1923 with Political Theology. This translation makes available for the first time to the English-speaking world Schmitts understanding of Political Theology and what it implies theologically and politically.ReviewWhy study Schmitt? Like the great thinkers of all ages, he addressed issues that transcend the moment. Political philosophers and political theorists, constitutional lawyers and legal theorists, international relations theorists ideologues of all colors find answers to burning political questions that revolve around the concept of sovereignty.George Schwab, National Committee on American Foreign Policy and The City University of New York (City College and Graduate Center)The publication in English of Carl Schmitts Political Theology II constitutes an important event in the Anglo-American reception of Schmitts thought. In the late 1960s, as the Roman Catholic Church reconciled itself with secular modernity and West Germanys liberal democracy resorted to extra-legal measures in the midst of political crisis, Schmitt decided to revisit the questions that motivated his thinking in the early Weimar Republic can morality only find justification in transcendental theological sources and must political authority rest ultimately with an extraordinary sovereign authority? Obviously, these questions still haunt our world as we move further into the 21st century.John P. McCormick, *University of Chicago*Every student of Schmitt will need to probe his post-1945 writings and will be fascinated by this superb new translation which brings out Schmitts self-imposed continued wrestling, despite opposition, with the relation between the political and theological realms. The Introduction gives a full account of why this thoroughly disturbing thinker continues to mean so much to both Right and Left.Jeremy Tambling, *The University of Manchester*The importance of this text lies not simply in the arguments herein, important as they are, but especially as an additional means of situating some of the central concerns that continuously provoked Schmitts writings.Polticial Studies ReviewFrom the Back Coverull*lulPolitical Theology II is Carl Schmitts last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), this is Schmitts most theological reflection on Christianity and its concept of sovereignty following the Second Vatican Council. At a time of increasing visibility of religion in public debates and a realization that Schmitt is the major and most controversial political theorist of the twentieth century, this last book sets a new agenda for political theology today. The crisis at the beginning of the twenty-first century led to an increased interest in the study of crises in an age of extremes - an age upon which Carl Schmitt left his indelible watermark. In Political Theology II, first published in 1970, a long journey comes to an end which began in 1923 with Political Theology. This translation makes available for the first time to the English-speaking world Schmitts understanding of Political Theology and what it implies theologically and politically.