The 1923 naturalization case, United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind, has become a flashpoint for multiple analyses of South Asian racialization in the United States, at times positioned as evidence of Asian exclusion and eventual triumph and, at others,
Blogging from Shanghai, part 13
Vigilante racism and de-Americanization of Asians and Latinos. I have explained to my students here that the blatant exclusion of Chinese and other Asian immigrants ended on the heels of World War II. However, even though immigration categories no longer…