how the white man went crazy
... ” (Shared Dreams, 3) “Filipinos also worked diligently in hotels as dishwashers and cooks and as domestic servants in homes of wealthy white Americans. ... At the lounge, two white men sat across the striptease stage from Vincent and his three friends-two white men and one Chinese American. ... Two white killers were set free in a city with a population more than 60 percent are black, where African Americans routinely received harsher sentences for lesser crime. ... Seventeen lawsuits by Chinese Americans went to the Supreme Court between 1881 and 1896, with a few setting important civil rights precedents. ... ” (Zia, 29) Bhagat Singh Thind Case: “The 1790 Naturalization Law allowed “free white persons” to become US citizens, and Asian Indians were thought to be part of the “Mediterranean branch of the Caucasian family. ... ” It ruled that it was also necessary to be “white.” Since Indians were not white, they could not become citizens, nor could they own land or send for their wives from India. ... ” (Kogawa, 92-93) A curfew was set and if they were caught out after the sun went down they were thrown in jail.