Citizen Thind (Seeing White, Part 10)
- Author
- Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University ([email protected])
- Published
- Wed 14 Jun 2017
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=8b9659520a552ae17d017c9adfbaf4ae&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.sceneonradio.org%2FSceneOnRadio
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.
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