Whiteness is an artificial cultural construct synthesized during the colonial era as a means of constructing and justifying the artificial hierarchy of racial pseudoscience that spawned from the increasingly racialized chattle slavery that was perpetuated by, primarily, the British Crown in the Americas over the century of colonization prior to the declaration of independence by the 13 colonies.
Whiteness and who qualifies as "white" expands and contracts depending on the historical and material circumstances that arise from the economic base that undergirds the wider cultural superstructure. The most recent example is how turks, pale chicanos, and Ukrainians are concidered to be white while some of the former Yugoslav states, Hungarians, Russians, and Byelorussians lost their "whiteness" based off of their economic opposition to the U.S
They're not white. They're Germans.
Whiteness is an artificial cultural construct synthesized during the colonial era as a means of constructing and justifying the artificial hierarchy of racial pseudoscience that spawned from the increasingly racialized chattle slavery that was perpetuated by, primarily, the British Crown in the Americas over the century of colonization prior to the declaration of independence by the 13 colonies.
Whiteness and who qualifies as "white" expands and contracts depending on the historical and material circumstances that arise from the economic base that undergirds the wider cultural superstructure. The most recent example is how turks, pale chicanos, and Ukrainians are concidered to be white while some of the former Yugoslav states, Hungarians, Russians, and Byelorussians lost their "whiteness" based off of their economic opposition to the U.S