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In a history of American cities, I read that the Polish, Irish, Italian, German, etc. identities shifted to 'white' around the 1930s or 1940s (my memory is a li
by hackuser 12y ago
In a history of American cities, I read that the Polish, Irish, Italian, German, etc. identities shifted to 'white' around the 1930s or 1940s (my memory is a little hazy).
- dragonwriter 12y agoIts true that before then, Polish, Irish, Italian (German not so much, AFAIK, but possibly) were ethnic identities often viewed as distinct from -- and frequently discriminated against by -- the dominant white-identifying group (in the same what whites of Hispanic origin have continued to be since), but white racial identity existed before then.