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Prashun Thind aka “Prash”: Manager of the Thindianapolis Colts.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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Prashun Thind aka “Prash”: Manager of the Thindianapolis Colts.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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Hoping for a last-minute stay of execution, Goldman calls Thind to talk some sense.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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Hoping for a last-minute stay of execution, Goldman calls Thind to talk some sense.
Why Fantasy Football Matters Erik Barmack 2006
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Put another way: Thind was white, in that he was Caucasian and even Aryan.
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The ruling of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind no longer holds weight, but its echoes have been inescapable: we aspire to be post-racial, but we still live within the structures of privilege, injustice, and racial categorization that we inherited from an older order.
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The Court determined that Thind was not white “in accordance with the understanding of the common man” and therefore could be excluded from the “statutory category” of whiteness.
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For an earlier generation of minorities and immigrants, to be recognized as a “white American,” whether you were an Italian or a Pole or a Hungarian, was to enter the mainstream of American life; to be recognized as something else, as the Thind case suggests, was to be permanently excluded.
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The ruling of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind no longer holds weight, but its echoes have been inescapable: we aspire to be post-racial, but we still live within the structures of privilege, injustice, and racial categorization that we inherited from an older order.
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For an earlier generation of minorities and immigrants, to be recognized as a “white American,” whether you were an Italian or a Pole or a Hungarian, was to enter the mainstream of American life; to be recognized as something else, as the Thind case suggests, was to be permanently excluded.
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