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The concept of whiteness is as much a fabrication as is Latinidad.

ideas argue that racist policies are the cause

This skewed demography is only now being corrected as nonprofessionals migrate to join families, as economic and/or political refugees; as workers in the transportation, lodging, and other trades; and as small businessmen (running shops, motels, and so on). Ignoring these facts of South Asian America, D’Souza asks, “why can’t an African American be

the people adopted just enough of the majority stance to be seen as acceptable members of the town.

The racializing serves the core mandate of race: to create hierarchies of value.

Racial-group behavior is a figment of the racist’s imagination. Individual behaviors can shape the success of individuals. But policies determine the success of groups.

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist

Hattam’s work shows how our very sense that race is largely about descent and being forced into categories, while ethnicity is about consent and choice, developed out of the contested inclusion of U.S. immigrants in the early twentieth century.