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ABSTRACT This essay examines some of the social contexts underlying the Supreme Court’s decision in the seminal case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind (1923). Since the Court’s decision in that case established that whiteness in the U.S. was based on ‘common’ sense, this essay examines how this ‘common’ sense was created in the public sphere. This essay presents arguments on how film, and in particular, the 1915 film Birth of a Nation, helped cement popular understandings of whiteness. Through these arguments, this essay provides further context to some of the social and political underpinnings of the Thind case.
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