(Ironically, photographs show that Ozawa was rather Caucasian-looking and could probably have passed as white, reminding us yet again that what is at stake is not epidermal visibility but racial visuality.) Ozawa asked the law to recognize the habits of his life (where he works, where he goes to church, what he wears, and more), but the Court resorts to a language of biology to deny the meaning of such quotidian adornment.
