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Ekaterina Cabylis Feb 2
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White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable

Italians, Greeks, Poles, Hungarians, Slavs and other European groups had to overcome prejudice over many years. When did we become white? Greeks and Italians weren't considered white until the 1970s.

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White immigrants weren’t always considered white — and acceptable - Andscape

Who, exactly, is white? The answer sounds obvious — we know a white person when we see one, we think. But when Italians poured into America in the late 1800s and early 1900s, they were not considered white upon arrival. A century later, though, when Teresa Giudice of The Real Housewives of New Jerse…

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