How "Whiteness" Was Invented

https://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/spl/thandekawhiting.html

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The War Nerd says:

What’s confusing for a lot of Americans is that unlike our seemingly simple notion of “race” as a matter of skin color, the South African riots aren’t about black vs. white. Most of the small shopkeepers being terrorized into fleeing are black Africans, and the rest are brown immigrants from South Asia. The difference isn’t white/black, but then that’s a specifically American way of seeing “race,” and a very rare one in world history. Most of the “race” disputes in history have been about which language you speak, which god you grovel to, and how you make a living rather than what shade you are.

https://pando.com/2015/04/19/the-war-nerd-the-art-of-turf-war/