Talk:Definitions of whiteness in the United States

Sicilians as non-white edit

The article claims that Sicilians were required to check off "Southern Italian," as opposed to "white." I don't care what the source article says; this is obviously incorrect. A quick check of the Ellis Island website will show ship's passenger lists from the early 1900s with every "race" under the sun, from "Southern Italian" to "Hebrew" to "German" to "Irish" to, yes, "English." It was not an either/or. 2601:246:4000:99F0:6498:E347:F78C:E267 (talk) 04:17, 12 October 2022 (UTC)Reply

American Jews edit

This page is persistently edited to classify all American Jews as "Middle Eastern". This is false, as European Jews have a different history of racial classification in the United States compared to MENA Jews. It is inappropriate to use Wikipedia to promote fringe race science theories and it erases the specificity of the MENA Jewish experience of racialization under US law and in the US census. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 09:28, 24 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Race, Law, and Politics edit

  This article is currently the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 January 2024 and 10 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Melissagroseibl (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Dorbwe (talk) 16:46, 23 April 2024 (UTC)Reply