HISTORY 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caucasian Race, Asian Americans, Equal Protection Clause
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Lecture 6 (2/8/16): naturalized citizenship and asian americans. 1882 to 1924: after exclusion of chinese laborers in 1882, nation saw immigration of subsequent waves of asian immigration to the us and hawaii. Japanese, korean, filipinos, south asians: by 1924 all asian immigration, except for filipino immigration, suspended, saw rise of category alien"s ineligible for citizenship in legal documents to denote. As non white immigrants, asians in the us were established by law as. Racial qualification of naturalized citizenship perpetual foreigners: by 1870, white racial qualification expanded to include blacks, in struggle for naturalized citizenship, non white immigrants or asian immigrants sought to overcome racial qualification. Race should not be the basis for establishing naturalized citizenship; compromised america"s promotion of equality and liberty for all. White racial qualifications: courts had to rule who and what counted as whites, notion of whites highly contested and unstable, saw a tension between common understandings of whiteness and scientific definition of whiteness.
