Justice Harlan’s dissent also endorsed excluding the Chinese from citizenship

Evidence

BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 153 He was just as racist as his brethren when it came to Asian immigrants, of whom he wrote: “There is a race so different from our own that we do not permit those belonging to it to become citizens of the United States. Persons belonging to it are, with few exceptions, absolutely excluded from our country. I allude to the Chinese race.” Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. at 561 (Justice Harlan dissenting). — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1010

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• XREF: Contradicts the standard romanticization of Harlan’s Plessy dissent as anti-racist throughout; ties to broader scholarship on ‘civil rights’ vs. Chinese exclusion.

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