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Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10)

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Hanalo Bezbunasi's Case for White Citizenship

In 1923, the Supreme Court ruled that to be white means to really be Caucasian and clearly you are not that. Taka'o Azawa is from Japan but he'd been in the US his entire adult life. Like Thinn, Azawa realizes to get ahead in the US he needs to become a citizen. And also like Thinn, he realizes that to do this he needs to prove his whiteness.

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