Scholars have overlooked children’s roles in racial prerequisite trials

Evidence

One feature that has not been analyzed in these types of racial prerequisite cases are the roles played onand offstage by liminal claimants’ American-born or -raised children, even though the most famous image from Cartozian prominently featured Tatos with his young adult daughters, Hazel and Orie. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 540

Categorization

  • QUESTION: What other prerequisite cases featured children as proof of whiteness? Testable research angle: systematically survey the racial prerequisite cases for minor claimants presented on the stand.