Change Over Time - Immigrant and non-Immigrant Whiteness
...ts; it seems a bit preordained for the Italian population to have had little or no issues here at home. I was also interested in the theme of Americanness in the other articles as their identification for what should or should not be accepted was placed more on the participation of immigrants, or non-immigrants, in the American work market; and the direct relation between wage and class/ethnicity. For example, in chapter nine of George Sanchez’s “Becoming Mexican American,” ‘noted that low wage labor with little possibility of economic advancement characterized the Mexican [in America] experience.’ (p.189) Mexicans, similar to Blacks, have suggestively been a population considered as being the farthest from Whiteness as any group could possibly be. And the change over time theme with which this week’s readings touched upon profess the heightened need for work, but rejected acceptance of the working man; regardless of race or ethnicity. Frank posed an additional argument regarding race by embracing the topic of working women; their demand for subjectivity in the public business market and their stunted abilities as a subordinated race in American society during the early 1900s. Frank also explains ‘if white racial privilege shaped white working-class women’s domestic labors, it also pervaded their content…reproduced racism…teach their children to be white and where to draw the line of white privilege.’(p. 695) I...