The 1923 Supreme Court ruled all South Asians ineligible for citizenship
Evidence
By 1923, his case went from Portland to the US Supreme Court, which ruled that despite ambiguities of caste, geography, language, ethnicity, and religion, Thind and, by extension, al South Asians were definitively “not white” and therefore ineligible for US citizenship. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 533
Related
- The US Supreme Court manufactured whiteness to permanently exclude Asians from citizenship (similarity 0.80)
- INS granted Arabs citizenship eligibility by classifying them white and separate from Asians. (similarity 0.79)
- The Supreme Court ruled high-caste Hindus ineligible for naturalization as non-Whites (similarity 0.78)