US law racialized entire geographical regions to bar Asian immigrants

Evidence

The zone itself was constructed using Orientalist practices of racializing geographical regions. This law mandated that any immigrant whose ancestry could be traced to the Asian continent or to the Pacific Islands would be denied entry as a so-called Oriental.∞∞ In 1952, this racial geography would again come into play when limited immigration was extended to the Asian–Pacific Triangle of East Asia and South Asia. This was an important policy in the U.S. government’s postwar program of racial exclusion and containment. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 291

Categorization

• XREF: The Asian-Pacific Triangle policy is a concrete anchor for the book’s thesis that race-not-religion drives these exclusions; parallels settler-colonial geography-making the reader studies. — connects to: The 1924 Asiatic Barred Zone placed nearly all Muslims outside admissible whiteness; The US Supreme Court manufactured whiteness to permanently exclude Asians from citizenship — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 951; US courts redefined race socially to permanently exclude Asians from whiteness and citizenship — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 966