3 ms·
> this is why Italians, Irish, Polish etc weren’t considered white until pretty late into the 1900’s in USA This is not true. They were the worst sort of white
by barry-cotter 6y ago
> this is why Italians, Irish, Polish etc weren’t considered white until pretty late into the 1900’s in USA
This is not true. They were the worst sort of white, the worst sort of people, Catholics, but the US legal system went to great lengths to categorize people by racial category and all of the ethnic groups you named were always considered white.
- cthalupa 6y agoHalf true. Historians have written on this quite a bit, but this article gives a solid overview: https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-always-considered-white-and-acceptable/ https://theundefeated.com/features/white-immigrants-werent-a... At points in time, some states have had laws on the books that 100% differentiated between "white" people and other European immigrants.
- lazyant 6y agoDepends on the place and time? they were going to lynch a black man for marrying a white woman but they got off since she was from Sicily and thus considered "not white", somewhere in the 1800s [citation needed]