There is really no such thing as a white race in Europe, which is very much a mixture of cultures and shades of skin colors. But all became white when they arrived in America, taking on not only a new national identity but also a new white cultural identity. Indeed, being “white” meant being part of the “white race,” which in reality was merely a social and political construction, created to supply the ideology and justification for slavery and racial oppression. Because if you were “white” in America, that meant that you were not “black” or “brown” or “yellow.” You were not African, Latino,
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