Mozumdar's 1912 petition for naturalization.

ID: 4555 ~ Source: National archives and records administration
This file appears in: A.K. Mozumdar and the Problem of Whiteness
This file appears in: A.K. Mozumdar and the Problem of Whiteness

By Charlie Byers
White Americans of the early 1900s were often obsessed with concepts of race and whiteness. But what did they mean by "white?" In 1912 a recent immigrant from India to Spokane would put the idea to the test.Born in Calcutta in 1880, A. K. Mozumdar…