Lawrence Goldstone’s Not White Enough is a comprehensive examination of a century of bigotry against Chinese and Japanese Americans that culminated in the infamous Supreme Court decision Korematsu v. United States: the landmark ruling that upheld the illegal imprisonment of more than 100,000 innocent men, women, and children who were falsely accused of endangering national security during World War II. This book is the first to trace the full arc of prejudice against Asian Americans that made internment inevitable and serves as a legal and political history of anti-Asian racism, beginning with the California gold rush and ending with the infamous Korematsu decision.Not White Enough demonstrates how the lines between law and politics blurred for decades to enable a two-tiered system of justice where constitutional guarantees of equality under law were no longer upheld for all people. Goldstone examines each of the key Supreme Court decisions—including Wong Kim Ark, Ozawa, and Thind—as not simply jurisprudence but as expressions of political will. He chronicles the political history of racism that made Japanese internment almost inevitable, highlighting the key roles San Francisco mayors James D. Phelan and Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, California attorney general Ulysses Webb, and future Chief Justice Earl Warren played in instigating some of the most egregious anti-Asian legislation, all for political convenience and gain. Goldstone also illustrates Chinese and Japanese immigrants’ courage and determination to carve out a place for themselves in a country that did everything it could to reject them.
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- Prologue: Bigotry Triumphant
- 1. Free and White
- 2. White, Black. and Gold
- 3. Enter the Japanese
- 4. Birthright
- 5. Yellow Peril
- 6. Workers of the West Unite
- 7. Tremors
- 8. Gentlemen. and Ladies
- 9. This Land Is (Not) Your Land
- 10. A Home One’s Own (Children)
- 11. The Golden West
- 12. The Heart of an American
- 13. What Meets the Eye
- 14. Turning the Soil
- 15. Slamming the Door
- 16. Banzai and Baseball
- 17 Loyalty
- 18. Fear and Fiction
- 19. An Illusion of Disloyalty
- 20. No Island Paradise
- 21. Infamy
- 22. Four Who Refused
- 23. A Caricature of Justice
- 24. The Courage to Do What’s Right
- 25. Shame
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Lawrence Goldstone is the author of Dark Bargain: Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution; The Activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the Myth of Judicial Review; Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903; and
