If we want to work together effectively for racial justice, and we do, we need to be clear about what racism is, how it operates, and . 1. are words of common speech, to be interpreted in accordance with the understanding of the common man, synonymous with the word Caucasian only as that word is popularly understood . Ozawa's case provided hope for Indian American Bhagat Singh Thind's citizenship case. 1923 In United . Free white persons . See also AAA Response to OMB Directive 15: Race and . Oct. 3, 1892 Thind is born in the Village of Taragarh, in Punjab, India. may be a better predictor of outcome than self-reported race . the outcome in the foregoing Davis cases may be explained by the fact that the issue involved the denial of the fundamental right to vote on the basis of . . [7] The argument was that if Ozawa was denied citizenship based on his race, did the law consider the Japanese people an inferior race and Caucasians a superior race? The ruling in his case caused 50 other Indian Americans to retroactively lose their . Like Thind, Ozawa also lost his case in an unanimous decision, because, as Justice George Sutherland concluded: "the term 'white person' is confined to persons of the Caucasian Race." To students to prepare for discussions, Show this lesson's video clip Instruct the students to read this lesson's essay. Mr. Ozawa, who was born in Japan but had lived in the United States for 20 years, filed for United States citizenship in 1915 under the. File Type: pdf. This page was last edited on 24 December 2022, at 15:58. Ultimately, it is an individual's personal responsibly to determine their outcome. The discipline of Sociology has generated great contributions to scholarship and research about American race relations. Only months before the Court heard Thind's case, it had ruled against Takao Ozawa, a Japanese immigrant who sued for his right to naturalize based on his beliefs and values, which he argued were as "American" as any white man's. Ozawa's petition for citizenship was denied on the basis of him being "white" but not "Caucasian" while Thind's was denied for the reverse, his race being .