Wednesday, October 11, 2023

A Symposium on Thind

For a limited time, the University of California Press is providing ungated access to One Century After Thind, a special issue of Ethnic Studies Review.  Here’s the TOC:

One Century After Thind: An Introduction
Soniya Munshi, Linta Varghese

“Gilded Cages”: Race, Labor, Citizenship, and the Fabrication of the “Hindu” in the American West
Amrit Deol

The Afterlives of Thind: Denaturalizations and the Changing Legal Definitions of Whiteness
Janna E. Haider

Doctorji the Divorcé: Understanding Bhagat Singh Thind Through His Marriage to Inez Buelen
Philip Deslippe

US v. Thind and the Rhetorical Labors of “Where Are You From?”
Andrew Parayil Boge

Thind and Belonging across the Edges of Time
Stanley Thangaraj

Remembering Thind
Sherally Munshi

Caste-ing White Supremacy: Thind, Cisco, and the Politics of Belonging
Falu Bakrania

On Brown Blood: Race, Caste, and the Bhagat Singh Thind Case
Arjun Shankar

South Asian and Indigenous Experiences at the US–Mexico Border: From US v. Thind to the War on Terror
Soham Patel