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Asian Americans and U.S. Law

Asian Exclusion: What does it mean to be Asian?

We return to the struggle of defining terms that People v. Hall introduced. This chapter, organized roughly chronologially, presents more cases considering whether potential immigrants from various areas could be classified as "White."

Linguistic Note: There is debate about capitalizing the word "White," e.g., Time to Capitalize 'Black'—And 'White' - The Atlantic. Capitalization from original sources, including cases, statutes, and articles, have been left as they were in the original.