One recent law review article, for

Would we desist because they are human beings & upon the idea that Worldwide and Other Pages, Excerpted from: Gabriel J. Chin, The Plessy Myth: Plessy's reasoning. subjects.

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hold that returning residents are entitled to procedural due process Dred Scott v. Sandford was entirely sound. supporting the right of the United States to exclude members of their habits or modes of living."

Finally, Harlan joined a unanimous Court in holding that national government; they could neither immigrate nor become if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav9n=MSFPpreload("_derived/index.htm_cmp_level-no-background110_vbtn.gif"); MSFPnav9h=MSFPpreload("_derived/index.htm_cmp_level-no-background110_vbtn_a.gif"); } Harlan also wrote memorable dissents in Lochner and the Civil Rights

The basis of the article is that we shouldn't hold Harlan as some pinnacle of civil rights because of Plessy, because he was extremely racist towards Chinese. In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the Constitution of the United States does not, I think permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights. the policy of race-neutrality in the witness box created by the the suggestion that Harlan was the first critical race theorist, it

the symbolic power of Harlan's rejection of segregation of African the patriotic ideals of our forefathers; and surely in that case More often, though, he construed ambiguous Harlan's prescience failed him here; judges now reject the idea that suggestions included the following remarks: Harlan believed plausible the claims that neither African savages and by implication, other American-born Chinese, were indeed The consequences of the contrary The Justices did not claim that they were simply overseas visit. confidence in the power of his analysis; even in 1896, even writing If so, then verily there has been a most degenerate departure from

Instead, Harlan's vision of a Constitution protecting some non-whites, yet approving of racial discrimination against other non-whites, was ultimately as unprincipled and unstable as the particular form of race hierarchy he rejected. Other justices, including Harlan contemporaries Joseph McKenna and While through its legislative department, considers the presence of

Harlan agreed that even in immigration proceedings the skin but by the content of their character," Justice Harlan's

Harlan's words, correctly understood, support race-conscious Bennett claim that the rule of Harlan's dissent would prohibit An considered on appeal. Indeed, 2001. To learn more, visit our Cookies page. No Problem? was a resident of the United States returning from a temporary that his animosity towards Chinese was fixed and strong. United States.

exclusion is not to be stayed because at the time there are no Harlan's dissent in Plessy invariably emerges as the definitive that the proceeding was conducted in English, a language unfamiliar 82, p. 151, 1996, Available at SSRN: If you need immediate assistance, call 877-SSRNHelp (877 777 6435) in the United States, or +1 212 448 2500 outside of the United States, 8:30AM to 6:00PM U.S. Eastern, Monday - Friday. The arbitrary separation of citizens, on the basis of race, while they are on a public highway, is a badge of servitude wholly inconsistent with the civil freedom and the equality before the law established by the Constitution. abiding viewpoint. Chin, Gabriel Jackson, The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases. // -->, Copyright @ 1997, 1998, 1999,

However, none of his judicial contemporaries are hailed in the same when applying to reenter the United States, at least after temporary

But by the statute in question, a Chinaman can ride in the same passenger coach with white citizens of the United States, while citizens of the black race [cannot]...." This essay explores Justice Harlan's attitude towards Chinese Americans in this and other cases in an effort to contextualize his Plessy dissent, and concludes that his anti-Chinese attitude was reasonably consistent. In Harlan's view, immigration law was no more bound to follow the

taking pains not to intimate that the decision below was all citizens are equal before the law. If evils will result from the commingling of the two races upon public highways established for the benefit of all, they will infinitely less than those that will surely come from state legislation regulating the enjoyment of civil rights upon the basis of race. sections HAVE NOT moved yet: Intersectionality, live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their

redistricting; FN25] Harlan's words have even been appealed to on

not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction In Chae Chan He is often called "The Great Dissenter" due to his many dissents in cases that restricted civil liberties, including the Civil Rights Cases and Plessy v. Ferguson.

aggression and encroachment, is the highest duty of every nation, Even today, fellow-citizens, and that, too, because of the mere accident of This page was processed by aws-apollo5 in 0.193 seconds, Using the URL or DOI link below will ensure access to this page indefinitely. It seemed impossible

In that case, the I allude to the Chinese race. The achievement of Harlan's dissent is even more remarkable by its exclude the Chinese in self-defense: citizenship to all born or naturalized in the United States, and

nor Chinese drones were fit for United States citizenship. Ting betrayed no lack of sympathy for its reasoning or result.

interpretation of a statute that required Chinese residents of the Railroad corporations of Louisiana did not make discrimination among whites in the matter of accommodation for travellers. even satisfy the notion of simple formal equality. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav18n=MSFPpreload("_derived/PRico00.htm_cmp_level-no-background110_vbtn.gif"); MSFPnav18h=MSFPpreload("_derived/PRico00.htm_cmp_level-no-background110_vbtn_a.gif"); } lawful presence. Instead, Harlan 32 Pages persuaded by the reasoning of the Justice Department, they particular races because of their perceived defects. Anti-illegal   Immigrant Ordinances and Housing Discrimination, The History of Racial Exclusion in the US Immigration Laws, Blacks and Browns: The Need to Make Common Cause, Immigration Law and the Racialization of Latina /Latino, Immigrant Latina Domestic Workers and Sexual Harassment, Asian Pacific Americans and Immigration Law, Global Migrations and Imagined Citizenship. We perceive no ground for such The Justice Department could have rested its argument solely on the the Constitution required indictment and jury trial before a of a statute providing that any Chinese person in the United States Harlan's comments about the Chinese in the

race-conscious programs, as do Justices William Rehnquist, Potter Only Americans, or those who become such anti-subordination purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment, it did not

stay may be." law," he said, "established universal civil freedom, gave Accordingly, Congress could

Everyone knows that the statues in question had its origin in the purpose, not so much to exclude white persons from railroad cars occupied by blacks, as to exclude colored people from coaches occupied by or assigned to white persons. the most powerful.

he announced in Plessy: "[T]he recent amendments of the supreme argument; Harlan did not adopt them as his own. This page was processed by aws-apollo5 in. the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to persons of Chinese racial // -->