The Importance of Whiteness

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The Supreme Court case didn't just backfire on thin. About 50 Indian Americans before him had been successful at getting citizenship. After the ruling, they all lost it. It's not limited to the Azawah and thinned cases. Matthew Huiz, the sociologist from the University of Connecticut says we see it again in the Obama-Birtha controversy,. In the immigration debate over Mexican immigrants, and again in a recent Supreme Court case.

The story of Bhagat Singh Thind, and also of Takao Ozawa – Asian immigrants who, in the 1920s, sought to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that they were white in order to gain American citizenship. Thind’s “bargain with white supremacy,” and the deeply revealing results.