> This is actually really interesting because in America the boundaries of who is "white" and who is not has constantly shifted from a social standpoint. This

> This is actually really interesting because in America the boundaries of who is "white" and who is not has constantly shifted from a social standpoint. This is very, very misleading. You know it’s very misleading, as shown by your next paragraph but plenty of people actually believe there was a time when Italians, Irish were not considered white. There wasn’t. There was a great deal of prejudice against non-Anglos, Nordics emphatically included but there was never legal discrimination against them authorised by legislation in any state or at a federal level. That’s not true for Black people or Asians, both East and South Asians. The entire shifting boundaries of whiteness literature is based on trying to muddy the difference between whether people were central or liminal members of a group with the question of whether they were members of the group at all.