The Racial Roots of the Federal Administrative State, by Jonathan Weinberg

Jonathan Weinberg‘s contribution to the Yale JREG Symposium on Racism and Administrative Law addresses bureaucratic mainfestations of racism over the course of U.S. history. He begins with the Fugitive Slave Act and devotes the bulk of his essay to the Chinese Exclusion Act. His conclusion: “We can see, in other words, the seeds of nearly all of modern administrative law in the administration of Chinese exclusion.”

His essay is herehere. A running list of immigration scholars still to come: Kit Johnson, Bijal Shah, Shruti Rana [will update as the symposium continues its weekly postings.]

MHC