Kathryn Schulz Summary

This Article was all based off of one man’s life. In this article Kathryn Schulz writing in New Yorker narrates to us the life of An Afghan immigrant named Zarif Khan, better known to the world as Hot Tamale Louie.She uses his life to make a point of how important diversity is in the United states. In the beginning of the article Schulz tells us about what is happening in the world today in the places where Louie had an effect. In Gillette ( a town close to where louie spent most of his life) a group of Muslims came together and bought a house that they then turned into a Mosque. They prayed there. They had meetings there. It was just a place where could express their religion together. It was the third mosque in Wyoming. To most of the locals

Because five months later he was subpoenaed by the U.S Attorney for the district of Wyoming. According to the first naturalization law that was passed in 1790 only “free white persons” were eligible to become citizens. Then the civil war came and the law was changed. It then the eligibility extend to people of African descent. Schulz then goes on to talk about how the Asians were treated during that time. Then about how the courts used “White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race,” to determined if you were white or not(Schulz). This was a list of court rulings on racial identity. Khan fit into the Arabs category; who, based on the “White by Law…”, weren 't white based on common knowledge. After this Schultz goes on to talk about a court cases ,that was similar to Khan’s case, where the court ruled that “white persons” was “synonymous with the word ‘Caucasian Only’…”. A year before Khan 's case an indian man named Vaishno Das Bagai and his family had be stripped of their citizenship(Schulz). Later Das Bagai told his family that he was going on a business trip, but he booked a hotel and killed himself. In the note that he left behind he described his suicide as a political protest(Schulz).Das Bagai death