Published in Scroll India.     Dear WTSA Family, I wanted to share an essay I wrote for Scroll about how 95 year old narratives about immigrants continue to threaten us today. The essay starts with the Supreme Court’s decision (delivered 95 years ago this month) that Bhagat Singh Thind (who argued he was a free white person) and other Indian immigrants were racially ineligible for citizenship. “A nuanced historic understanding of the desperate political circumstances that Thind and other Asian immigrants … Continue reading An Indian immigrant’s fight for US citizenship in 1923 holds lessons in Trump’s America