Tony Karon sur Twitter : "Interesting read, and a reminder that there’s nothing biological about “whiteness”; it’s a constructed power relation that signals #oppression and #exclusion / How Italians Became ‘White’ ►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html" / Twitter
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Opinion | How Italians Became ‘White’ - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html
Few who march in Columbus Day parades or recount the tale of Columbus’s voyage from Europe to the New World are aware of how the holiday came about or that President Benjamin Harrison proclaimed it as a one-time national celebration in 1892 — in the wake of a bloody New Orleans lynching that took the lives of 11 Italian immigrants. The proclamation was part of a broader attempt to quiet outrage among Italian-Americans, and a diplomatic blowup over the murders that brought Italy and the United States to the brink of war.
Historians have recently showed that America’s dishonorable response to this barbaric event was partly conditioned by racist #stereotypes about Italians promulgated in Northern newspapers like The Times.
#racisme #etats-unis #médias #MSM