Italian Americans: Shifting Racial Identities in the 20th Century
One of the valuable underlying aspects of this #Venticinque project is the way it urges us to consider issues of immigration, national belonging, ethnicity, and race. Just in time for this year’s Columbus Day, the New York Times published an opinion piece that directly speaks to the way that Italian Americans fluidly shifted through different racial categories over the years. It’s definitely worth a read:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html