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Asian Americans and U.S. Law
Resource 3 . 6
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The Case of Balsara (May 29, 1910)

The New York Times

Marina Hsieh

The following was published in The New York Times on May 29, 1910, a month prior to the release of the Second Circuit decision on July 1, 1910. The writer's views on skin color and ethnology appear in the third and fourth paragraphs.

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