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United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Judicial Decisions Involving Questions of International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1923

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References

1 Dictionary of Races, supra, p. 31.

2 Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), p. 113: “ The ill-chosen name of Caucasian, invented by Blumenbach in allusion to a South Caucasian skull of specially typical proportions, and applied by him to the so-called white races, is still current; it brings into one race peoples such as the Arabs and Swedes, although these are scarcely less different than the Americans and Malays, who are set down as two distinct races. Again, two of the best marked varieties of mankind are the Australians and the Bushmen, neither of whom, however, seems to have a natural place in Blumenbach's series.”

3 The United States Bureau of Immigration classifies all Pacific Islanders as belonging to the “ Mongolic grand division.” Dictionary of Races, supra, p. 102.

4 Keane himself says that the Caucasic division of the human family is “ in point of fact the most debatable field in the whole range of anthropological studies.” Man: Past and Present, p. 444.

5 Dictionary of Races, supra, p. 6. See, generally, 2 Encyclopedia Britannica, (11th ed.), p. 113.

6 Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th ed., p. 113.

7 Encyclopedia Britannica, (11th ed.), p. 502.

8 Id.

9 Encyclopedia Britannica, p. 503: “ In spite, however, of the artificial restrictions placed on the intermarrying of the castes, the mingling of the two races seems to have proceeded at a tolerably rapid rate. Indeed, the paucity of women of the Aryan stock would probably render these mixed unions almost a necessity from the very outset; and the vaunted purity of blood which the caste rules were calculated to perpetuate can scarcely have remained of more than a relative degree even in the case of the Brahman caste.”