>gee, tell that to the irish, who, along side the chinese, built the
>railroads in the u.s. or the poles, the italians, european jews ... all
>of these groups, and more, were racialied, considered of inferior races,
>etc.
>
>[don't even try assuming that i'm arguing that these groups were more
>oppressed, or even as oppressed than "non-whitees." i'm simply
>challanging the notion that whites formed a cohesive group in the u.s.]
And the assimilation of the Irish to "whiteness" was an important part of the racialization of class in the U.S. Ditto the various other ethnic groups over the decades. But now we do have to deal with this category "white" - it's part of our social inheritance. How do we undo it without denying it?
Doug