Opinion | Nell Irvin Painter: White identity in America is ideology, not biology. The history of 'whiteness' proves it. - NBCNewsTHINK
The history of American whiteness since the Enlightenment bristles with an abundance of fascinating figures. Everyone from Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franz Boas, Malcolm X, Michael Novak and Toni Morrison have influenced our thinking about whiteness. I have written a whole long book about how this thinking evolved,It’s too easy to think of Irish, Italian, Slavic, or Greek immigrants and their children as “becoming” white.
Why were the 1940s such a turning point? Because Nazis in Germany were committing racist crimes while arguing that Jews were different racially from Germans, that Jews were not Aryans, which an embarrassingly large proportion of Americans also believed, e.g., Henry Ford, an ardent anti-Semite.
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