POLSCI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Geary Act, Yellow Peril, Moral Evil
22 Oct 2018
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To become a naturalized citizen, you have to be a free, white person 1790. Mexicans would be treated as white for naturalization. 1849 gold rush brought the chinese over. The irish were anti-chinese so they could be white. 1852 bigler calls the chinese a moral evil . California state law that barred poc from testifying against whites. A white man was convicted of murder only on the basis of a chinese man. A crime to employ a chinese person. If you were an alien, you could be deported without a process. Chinese had to have a pass for proof of residency. Included the word aliens but not in landowning context. Syrians are scientifically white, so he"s white. White or caucasian is the only prereq for naturalization. The only time a court uses both bc they are contradictory. Syrian that was denied in contrast to najour. We have to use the ordinary meaning of white from 1790 european.
