Concept information
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social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court cases
Preferred term
Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Definition
- In 1886's Yick Wo v. Hopkins, the Supreme Court ruled that laws that were race neutral on paper but were applied in a way that discriminated according to race violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This would have had important ramifications for Jim Crow laws, which, like California's anti-Chinese laws, targeted a race without naming it in the language of the law; however, the Supreme Court soon created the “separate but equal” doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson that allowed for certain types of discrimination. [Source: Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia; Yick Wo v. Hopkins]
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Date
- 1886
URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins
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