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Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas
Goldschmidt, Henry Assistant Professor of Religion and Society, Department of Religion, Wesleyan University
McAlister, Elizabeth Associate Professor of Religion, Wesleyan University
Print publication date: 2004 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2005
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-514918-0
doi:10.1093/0195149181.003.0011
10 The Civilization of White Men
The Race of the Hindu in United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind
Jennifer Snow
This essay examines a landmark 1922 case in which the United States Supreme Court denied a Sikh immigrant’s application for citizenship under the 1790 statute restricting naturalization to “free white men.” Despite his undisputed “Aryan blood,” the Supreme Court decreed that Bhagat Singh Thind could not become an American citizen because because his “Hindoo” religion was inconsistent with “the civilization of white men.”
Keywords: United States Supreme Court, Bhagat Singh Thind, Sikh, Hindu, Hindoo, Aryan, immigration, citizenship, naturalization,
doi:10.1093/0195149181.003.0011
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Introduction
Section I “Heathens” and “Jews” in the Colonial Imagination
1 Race and Religion on the Periphery
2 The Jew in the Haitian Imagination
Section II Constructing and Critiquing White Christianities
3 A Great Racial Commission
4 The Catholic Afro Mass and the Dance of Eurocentrism in Brazil
Section III Race and Nation in the Mission Field
5 “Marked in Body, Mind, and Spirit”
6 “In Search of Souls, in Search of Indians”
Section IV Segregation, Congregation, and the North American Racial Binary
7 Catholics, Creoles, and the Redefinition of Race in New Orleans
8 Beyond the Binary
Section V Policing the Racial and Religious Boundaries of “Civilization”
9 Legislating “Civilization” in Postrevolutionary Haiti
10 The Civilization of White Men
Section VI Sense and Sensuality in Rituals and Representations of Race
11 The House of Saint Benedict, the House of Father John
12 Projecting Blackness
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