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Many people from the Mediterranean and the surrounding areas are white-passing people of color. They've been flattened by the official US race forms into "white
by howinteresting 4y ago
Many people from the Mediterranean and the surrounding areas are white-passing people of color. They've been flattened by the official US race forms into "white", but that's not the same thing as actually being white in terms of day-to-day lived experience.
See this book: https://www.amazon.com/Whitewashed-Americas-Invisible-Minority-Critical/dp/0814782736 https://www.amazon.com/Whitewashed-Americas-Invisible-Minori...
- yywwbbn 4y agoGenes which are responsible for white skin were introduced to Europe by “immigrants” from the middle east. It’s a very diverse region due to groups of people moving in/out for thousands of years. So whatever label you try to attach to them you’ll find plenty of people for whom it makes no sense (e.g. there are groups of people whose ancestors lived in the Levant for at least thousands of years and amongst whom red hair and blue eyes are more common than in most “European” populations)
- howinteresting 4y agoRace and ethnicity are related but different things.
- ummonk 4y agoSomeone who is truly white-passing should be considered a person of paleness, not a person of color, no? Like sure they're an ethnic minority but racial minority?
- howinteresting 4y agoI'm not knowledgeable enough to be able to draw that distinction, but what I can say is that several people close to me fit that description and look at themselves as white-passing PoC, due to the ways they've been treated as a separate group from European-origin white people.