Remembering Thind: Racial Memory & The Marking of Asian America with Sherally Munshi (Georgetown Law)
Date
November 29, 2022
Time
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Location
Schermerhorn 754
The hundred-year anniversary of the historic Thind decision presents itself as an occasion for critical reflection about how we make sense of this particular past, our identification within it, and its relevance to our contemporary moment. Thind has been read primarily as a case about the racialization and exclusion of Indian immigrants from the United States. This talk will explore some of the limits of that framing, arguing that, among other things, it reifies the apparent givenness of racial form while obscuring the historic forces that gave urgency to its formation.
