Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 21:46:42 +0800
Subject: Re: White mens problems


  refs for Terry's points: Karen Brodkin _How Jews became White and What
That Says About Race in America_ Rutgers UP '98; Noel Ignatiev _How the
Irish Became White_ Routledge '95.
   Jon



At 09:03 AM 21/07/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I take the point about "white" appearance of skin, as in Kashmir, but
>while "white" is a floating signifier it continues to have an obvious
>meaning. There are many examples where it has moved over time. I was at a
>conference where Mordecai Richler was dismissed as "white" and he replied,
>"You're right, I am white. But I wasn't when I was a kid." In North
>America, Jews and Italians have become "white" over the years. It seems
>strange today but my Irish grandmother ran into discrimination in Canada 
>in the late nineteenth century, basically because she wasn't really
>"white".
>terry
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>Terry Goldie
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>York University
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>Canada
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