Talk:Judicial aspects of race in the United States

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The Indian Removal Act
The following part of a sentence in the article uses a choice of words that should be improved, because it's very misleading: "The Indian Removal Act of 1830 legalized deportation of Native Americans to the West, known as 'Indian Removal'(...)"

First, "deportation" isn't the best word to use here. Deportation is most often defined as "the expulsion of an undesired alien from a country." Merriam Websters defines it as "the removal from a country of an alien whose presence is illegal or detrimental to the public welfare." Second, when the word deportation is used here followed by the vague location "to the West," and furthermore with the word "West" being capitalized, it gives the completely wrong idea. I would recommend that the word "deportation" be replaced with "relocation" and "to the West" be replaced with "to the west of the Mississippi River."

Suggestions for Improving Article
A good start! I really welcome this article for laying out the interconnections between immigration law, the laws surrounding Native Americans, slavery and the lives of free blacks, and the later Jim Crow laws.

Some suggestions for further research: check out the work of Peggy Pascoe ("Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth Century America"), David Hollinger ("Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States") and Patrick Wolfe ("Land, Labour, and Difference: Elementerary Structures of Race").

195.73.22.130 21:04, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

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Proposed article edits
Hi, everyone!

I intend to edit the following sections-
 * "Legislation during the nadir of American race relations": This section is long and unorganized. I will divide it into subsections, including electoral disenfranchisement, anti-miscegenation laws, "sundown towns" and other residential racial segregation, and immigration laws.
 * "The 'Yellow Peril' and the national origins formula": First, I will separate the section on the Yellow Peril from the content on the national origins formula. In the "Yellow Peril" section, I will expand the references to specific court cases, expand on naturalization requirements, and add citations. In the second section, I'll go into depth on the origins, enactment, and effects of the national origin formula.

I also intend to add the following sections-
 * "The census": I will create a section explaining how the census has been used and misused to affect immigration quotas, especially in the early 20th century. This section will also cover the effect of the census on the construction of racial categories.
 * "Degrees of whiteness": Here I will discuss the distinctions between different white peoples after they immigrated, specifically how Italians and other Southern Europeans were not afforded the same privileges as other white groups. This will cover the conceptualization of whiteness, discriminatory legislation, the eventual acceptance of these groups as white, and common counterarguments to this narrative.

Does anyone have any additional suggestions?

Alexisharmon (talk) 03:04, 26 November 2018 (UTC)