Justice Harlan’s Plessy dissent excluded Chinese immigrants from equality.
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
- CANDY: A crisp ironic detail — that the lone pro-equality Plessy voice drew the citizenship line at Chinese immigrants — fun to drop in conversation.
- XREF: connects to: Justice Harlan’s dissent also endorsed excluding the Chinese from citizenship
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Justice Harlan’s dissent also endorsed excluding the Chinese from citizenship