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Racial classification of Indian Americans : ウィキペディア英語版 | Racial classification of Indian Americans
The racial classification of Indian Americans has varied over the years and across institutions.〔Harpalani, Vinay, DesiCrit: Theorizing the Racial Ambiguity of South Asian Americans (August 12, 2013). 69 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 77 (2013); Chicago-Kent College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-30. pp. 123, 124 & 136. Available at SSRN: (link )〕 Originally, neither the courts nor the census bureau classified Indian Americans as a race because there were only negligible numbers of Indian immigrants in the United States. Various court judgements instead deemed Indians to be "White" or "not White" for the purposes of law. In 1970, in the most recent assignment, the U.S Census Bureau designated Asian Indians as White. Since 1980, while keeping the validity of its earlier designation (White), the U.S. Census Bureau further allowed Indian Americans to self-report their ethnicity,〔 owing to the immense diversity of the Indian subcontinent, which is home to more than 2000 different ethnic groups〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=US Department of State )〕 and all the racial groups known to mankind.〔Bhasin, M.K. (Racial, Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Elements in Indian Population )〕 Only the continent of Africa exceeds the linguistic, genetic and cultural diversity of the nation of India.〔(India, a Country Study ) ''United States Library of Congress, Note on Ethnic groups''〕 The decision to let Indian Americans self-identify was made both in light of the aforementioned diversity in India, which has all the different racial groups represented in its diverse population, in addition to accommodate the fact that in recent years, increasingly diverse racial and ethnic groups of Indians and South Asians have immigrated to the United States, including from the North-West of the Indian subcontinent, where Caucasian ethnic groups are found.〔 ==Initial perceptions== The earliest Indian immigrants into the United States were called "Hindoos" even though the majority of them were Sikhs. Court clerks classified these early immigrants from the Punjab region as being "white", "brown" or "black" based on their skin color for the purpose of marriage licenses. In addition to being racialized by their color, they were also racialized as being "foreigners".〔
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