Obama's Speech on Asian immigrants & Monolithic whiteness

We here at Righteous Minds strive to make sure that you have access to historical issues that play a role today. This one particularly focuses on "whiteness" in America and Obama's stance which is linked to early Asian immigrants:

UCLA Law Professor Jerry Kang, who is an active member of the UCLA
Asian American Studies Center's Faculty Advisory Committee, has
written a very insightful opinion piece in the National Law Journal,
in which he draws parallels between Barack Obama's recent speech on
race, and two historically significant US Supreme Court cases --
Ozawa v. U.S. and U.S. v. Thind -- dealing with naturalization and
race for early Asian immigrants:


http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1206528538825

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