Race does not equate to nationality. If they wanted one or both they could have made provision for it on the form but African is not a race and should not have appeared in that block on the form. If individual who was involved in filing out the application used the term African to signify his race, the clerk may have just transfered the information from the application to the COLB.
Yes, race doesn’t equal nationality, I’ve got that and you state the obvious. But there isn’t a block for nationality, at least as far as I’ve seen from the long forms. Perhaps Hawaii’s standard operating procedures were to combine the two. Enter RACE into the block if you’re a citizen, enter nationality if you’re not.
Does anybody have access to 60’s versions of operating procedures for Hawaii’s Health Department?