RG ST 71 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Bhagat Singh Thind, Bramans, Scientific Racism
Anti-miscegenation laws
Prohibited intermarriage
➔Trying to keep the races apart
California civil code, section 60 (1880)
➔All marriages of white persons with Negroes or mulattoes were illegal and void
➔California civil code, section 60 (1906)
◆All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mongolians, or mulattoes are illegal
and void
➔California civil code, section 60 (1933)
◆All marriages of white persons with Negroes, Mongolians, and members of the
Malay race or mulattoes are illegal and void
➔Race is defined by the powers who have the ability to do so
Timothy Yatko
➔California vs Yatko
➔Filipino married to a white woman
➔Butler (wife) had an affair and Yatko killed the man she had an affair with
◆During this time, wives couldn’t testify against husbands
● Their marriage was not legitimate because it was interracial so Butler
could testify against Yatko
➔In this case, Filipinos were considered “Mongolians”
◆Relates to California civil code, section 60 of 1906
Roldan v LA County
➔Ruling
◆List of 5 races included Mongolians and Malays
◆Mongolian referred to the Chinese, so Filipinos were Malay
● Filipinos could marry white people because they were not mentioned in
the law prohibiting intermarriage
Edward Said “Orientalism” 1978
The theory of orientalism
➔The West’s representation of the East is a fabrication based upon fears and desires and
projections of the West itself
➔Binary system whereby everything that the US is not is projected upon Asia
◆Asymmetrical relationship between East and West
➔The occident vs the orient
occident oriental
Rational
Democratic
Forwards
Active
Realistic
Irrational
Despotic
Backwards
Submissive
Mystical
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Document Summary
All marriages of white persons with negroes or mulattoes were illegal and void. All marriages of white persons with negroes, mongolians, or mulattoes are illegal and void. All marriages of white persons with negroes, mongolians, and members of the. Malay race or mulattoes are illegal and void. Race is defined by the powers who have the ability to do so. Butler (wife) had an affair and yatko killed the man she had an affair with. During this time, wives couldn"t testify against husbands. Their marriage was not legitimate because it was interracial so butler could testify against yatko. In this case, filipinos were considered mongolians . Relates to california civil code, section 60 of 1906. List of 5 races included mongolians and malays. Mongolian referred to the chinese, so filipinos were malay. Filipinos could marry white people because they were not mentioned in the law prohibiting intermarriage.
