This is all very interesting, but the notion that Jews were accepted
earlier than the Italians strikes me as bizarre, unless I have mistaken
your meaning.
At 12:23 AM 4/27/2007 +0900, CeJ wrote:
Unlike other European immigrants who struggled initially to become "white"
in America, such as the Irish and the Jews, Italian immigrants fought a
hostile reception even beyond the third generation in the U.S. Despite or
perhaps because of the nearly quintessential American families of the
Corleones and the Sopranos, young people of Italian descent are still
given affirmative action scholarships, at least in New York City, to
entice them to go to college and take part in the American
Dream. Although European immigrants were initially granted automatic
citizenship thanks to the privileging of white skin that inspired the
Naturalization Act of 1790, thus leading to the large-scale immigration of
Europeans of the 19th and 20th century, it took Italians several
generations to be perceived as entirely "white", while the Irish and Jews
were essentially "white" by the second generation.
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