American Citizenship and the Japanese -1921

This is material from The American Academy of Political and Social Science, January, 1921.

1: Sources of citizenship.

2: 'Free white person.'

3: Census classifications.(continues on the next page)

1: 'White person' does not include Mongoloid race people.

1: First-generation (Issei) Japanese cannot become naturalized, but children born to them in the U. S. are automatically citizens.

1: Questions that will need to be answered.

2: Japanese overcrowding our schools?

3: The 14th amendment could be changed.

1: Once a Japanese, always a Japanese, no matter where they are born.

2: Problems must be handled by both the States and the federal government.

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