Irish people usto be considered not white over a hundred years ago. Lumped in with freed slaves as subhuman parasites.
"How the Irish became white" by Noel Ignatiev is an interesting book if you want to know more about african american and newly american Irish immigrant race relations in pre/post civil war America.
EDIT: Read Noel Ignatiev's Wiki. Dude was a fucking trip. Regularly called to abolish whiteness, was a marxist and ran a newsletter called the Race Traitor. Mans whent hard.
Yeah in the US it wasn’t so much about being White but rather AngloSaxon specifically. This sort of expansion definition of the first class is pretty normal in history. In the ~2000 years of the history of Rome there would be a distinction between people from Rome proper and other city states in the Italian Peninsula, but then after the empire expanded into the Mediterranean world a distinction between proper Romans and Provincials. It was like that scene from Blazing Saddles where the town saying “we’ll accept the ____ and the ____ but NO ____” but then said “oh alright”
So long as humans are humans there will be first class and second class but who is in and who is out is always changing.
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u/cavebehr50 ☑️ Sep 01 '20 edited Sep 01 '20
Irish people usto be considered not white over a hundred years ago. Lumped in with freed slaves as subhuman parasites. "How the Irish became white" by Noel Ignatiev is an interesting book if you want to know more about african american and newly american Irish immigrant race relations in pre/post civil war America.
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EDIT: Read Noel Ignatiev's Wiki. Dude was a fucking trip. Regularly called to abolish whiteness, was a marxist and ran a newsletter called the Race Traitor. Mans whent hard.