Finding Your Roots: How Italians became White
Finding Your Roots: How Italians became White
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Finding your roots? We delve into the forgotten history of Sicilian and Italian immigrants in the Jim Crow South of the United States and origins of Columbus Day. Initially welcomed as a source of cheap labor after the Civil War,…
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I was sitting here listening to this with my jaw dropping. I have been to Italy 3 times, and have Italian relatives. I feel so naive about this whole topic. My Italian cousin was heavy into doing her genealogy, and managed to hit royalty. One of her ancestors is Julius Caesar! Interesting thing about this particular cousin; many years ago she did outreaches on the Pine Ridge reservation in SD. She is very swarthy, and was mistaken many times to be First Nation's. She was treated at such, and denied entry to restaurants there. She never did have trouble with being Italian, though.
"Race" is a cultural construct, doesn't correspod to reality. People belong to peoples and nations, not "races".
Thanks making this clip.. It would also be interesting to hear about what happened later in the century. Like reasons for Deportations and reasons to be denied entry into the country and what it was to like for some Italians who were in the military either by draft or volunteering to have to go back overseas to fight in wars.. Just a thought.. maybe it has already been mentioned.
Blonde hair and pink skin is not Caucasian .
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Recognizing its the creators to claim not man, if we recognize and despect nature, we wouldnnt need labels and limits on geography if we operated with love and good intentions, wont need to lead with ego, which is fear, Nature can cure us and get usback in tune
I have cousins that are half Italian, and there dark skin , close to black
Italians have thrived in the US despite this racism, but the real divide is rich and poor .
Italians European.. but Not white. White is white..if you have to question it..its not white
Hi My Sister, thank you for that wealth of information, never realized that you Guys suffer the same discrimination as we do, our hope is in God when He comes, bless.
So you do know that Sicilians are actually descendants from African-Americans and Italian people right as matter fact, they classify themselves as African-American if you talk to them, they know the Spanish inquisition was to remove us from those lands and we got dropped off in Africa. We were in Europe for a long long time and we educated them alongside our cousins the moors look it up. Don’t tell part of the story. Tell the whole story.
Italians became yt to benefit off of anti blk racis1sm. To say its comparable to blks is an out right lie looking for victimism.
I did not know about Louisiana history on Italians. I am Sicilian and I knew that northern Italians considered southern Italians as unequal. My grandfather came to America in the later 1900s and he would tell us of the hatred he experienced .
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Italy is close to Africa. It’s interesting how some people kept referring to Johnny Cash first wife as a “ dark Italian “ however she had Italian ancestry but she was black . In her old photos she looked of mixed ancestry for ex Creole …..unfortunately she and Johnny Cash played down the blackness of herself …….
Honestly, white people had some nerve and that racism sht is disgusting…imagine hanging another human BEING because they were served food before you. Yall need to repent and come up off those reparations.
Black people considered Italian people black… We click good
I am an Indian . When I was in The UK one Anglosaxion fellow asked me why you Indians are of so many shades of coloue ? I told him look! donkeys are of only one colour but horses are of different colours.
Italians with dark hair, olive skin and brown eyes are beautiful and/or handsome.
I am mostly Scotch and Irish and we too were prejudiced against and often depicted as gorillas in cartoons. I did not know about the lynchings but I am not surprised. Trump's derision of other groups feeds on this hatred.
This is new info for me, thanks for enlightening me
I think Italians are great people however some movies and TV shows can create an anti-Italian attitude because many think all Italians are in the mob or something
Why would you want to consider yourself to be white. No pun intended but you don't even look white which is a major plus. Love who you are and your looks. Love and Light.
Who really cares its Bull Crap and is drinking the Kool-aid 😮
It’s Dago, like day go.
"White" is all colors in one. The better term is light brown or light tan or even shrimpy for some of you with weaker genes.
I'm Sicilian-American, I often look in the mirror at myself and wonder how someone could see me as not White, it's a very weird feeling
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Your audio is only showing up in one headphone, but the music showed up in the other one so I know it’s something to do with this video
How I understand the word Mafia. It came about the Sicilians revolting against the French that colonized Sicily. A woman cried out ma fia, ma fia when she discovers a French soldier raped her daughter. Ma fia meant my daughter. That was the spark of the revolt.
Dude this channel is literally a gringa being a karen.
No race on the planet earth is equal or can claim black ethnicity and then turn around and claim to be worst than a negro as if we are the scum of the earth.😡 if u are black I strongly suggest we stick together and thumbs down this video
Like my family…😊
Okay, but you could say almost all of these things about the Irish that immigrated around the same period. You don't mention that. What color was their skin? It was white. Race being a construct is utterly false. Though we as humans may have blurred and conflated race at times. Race is a biological reality right down to the genes that make up our body's and brains. Not only is it physically observable, it also results in genetic differences that make up the crux of who we are indevidually as well as collectively. You're characterizing early Americans to be so ignorant as to see skin color as the most important thing failing to mention that in actuality these genetic differences led to the conclusions that built the beliefs many early America's had about race, cultures, and distinct peoples. Realize it or not Marxism in light form has helped build your view on this. It's correct at times but only to a point faulting when it comes to any nuance. I'm saying basicly that race is a truth and reality not a construct. Early people's of all backgrounds observed this and race goes much draper than the color of your skin. As we see the complete destruction of America unfold in front of us it would be wise to acknowledge these realities and taking some of the knowledge the early Americans had will still being able to throw away some of the more troubling beliefs they might have held. Race is a biological reality and does help determine who you are. This can be true while also acknowledging that and persecution of someone for their race (or anythung one can not change) is inherently evil. Both can be and are true. The first slave was white, and one of the first if not the first slave owner was a black man. Most people do not know this and when faced with this realization you can observe their brain falling out of their head. That's because of the LIE propagated right here. What I have observed is that most of the time there was a divide between those who had wealth and those who did not and that can be said for most of world history. The idea that people were once so ignorant as to see nothing but skin color is false
ROME went to ENGLAND..I'm 5% Italian
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The southern Italians aka Siciliana,ARE NUBIAN(so-called Black) due to Hannibal Barca influence in that region.And ppl,research the proximities of these countries because Africa from Italy is only a few nautical miles.Theres also a place in Sicilia that the name alone tells you who the inhabitants were…and it’s called AFRICO.Europe and Africa,just as all the other landmasses,once touched each other and were once a huge landmass.
I want my reparations! 🤣🤣🤣
Italians have always been white. The question should be how a small section of them became brown. It has to do with an invasion by berbers.
Deep history shows that Italians are blacks just like us. This was influenced by the moors conquering that area of Europe
It's funny how all the immigrant cultures can show how at one point they were considered as low as blacks. Then poof one day they are white, and what do all good whites do (hate blacks)
Very interesting to hear the history. My GGgrandmother, whose family immigrated from Calabria, told her husband she was Native American, which was more acceptable as he was Scottish. So generations later we all thought we were Cherokee. But after a DNA test, I found many Italian cousins and no native American relatives. It's extremely sad to see history repeating itself. After all, we're all earthlings on this crazy ride through the universe together.
It was just as bad for Irish people they were forced here as “indentured servants” when they first came and they were called the n-word and told to go back where they came from and treated extremely poorly based on their race. It’s something that has always gone on all this rhetoric is to sow division amongst the populace to make them easier to control
Every major group that arrived on US shores has faced alot of nativism, racist and disgusting behavior. It's a sadly an american past time. From native americans, germans, japanese, chinese, italians, irish and carribeans. I remember my parents were discriminated due to being puerto rican which we still somewhat face ignorants to this day. Mind you puerto ricans have been citizens since 1911 and the island has more population than at least a dozen states.