David Roediger: "Dalam beberapa hal, orang-orang Yahudi dan berbagai k...

"Dalam beberapa hal, orang-orang Yahudi dan berbagai kelompok yang sebagian besar beragama Katolik dan sering miskin Eropa "putih," seperti yang dikatakan sejarawan Tom Guglielmo, "pada saat kedatangan." Di mana hukum naturalisasi diperhatikan, misalnya, banyak preseden mengakui kemampuan mereka untuk menjadi warga negara, suatu hak yang secara eksplisit bertumpu pada "keputihan" mereka. Tetapi mereka juga tetap, seperti yang dikatakan Working menuju Whiteeness, "diadili" untuk waktu yang lama."

--- David Roediger

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In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.