#thind — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #thind, aggregated by home.social.
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⬆️ Institutional #racism in #US is not limited to #black people.
'That #SouthAsian Americans were able to successfully naturalize was an anomaly. Other #Asian immigrants had already been barred from naturalized #citizenship on the grounds that they were not #white as required by the nation’s naturalization laws dating back to 1790. It would not be until the #SupremeCourt ruled in the #Thind decision, on February 19, 1923, that South Asians were not considered "white”'
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⬆️ Institutional #racism in #US is not limited to #black people.
'That #SouthAsian Americans were able to successfully naturalize was an anomaly. Other #Asian immigrants had already been barred from naturalized #citizenship on the grounds that they were not #white as required by the nation’s naturalization laws dating back to 1790. It would not be until the #SupremeCourt ruled in the #Thind decision, on February 19, 1923, that South Asians were not considered "white”'
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⬆️ Institutional #racism in #US is not limited to #black people.
'That #SouthAsian Americans were able to successfully naturalize was an anomaly. Other #Asian immigrants had already been barred from naturalized #citizenship on the grounds that they were not #white as required by the nation’s naturalization laws dating back to 1790. It would not be until the #SupremeCourt ruled in the #Thind decision, on February 19, 1923, that South Asians were not considered "white”'