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Why did Chinese-Americans in the Mississippi Delta begin to identify themselves with whites?
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In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled in "Lum v. Rice" that the separate-but-equal doctrine applied to a person of Chinese ancestry, born in and a citizen of the United States. The court held that Miss Lum was not denied equal protection of the law because she was given the opportunity to attend a school which "receive[d] only children of the brown, yellow or black races". However, Chinese-Americans in the Mississippi Delta began to identify themselves with whites and