{"id":128900,"date":"2015-11-19T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/the-ineffability-of-whiteness.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:35:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:35:42","slug":"the-ineffability-of-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/the-ineffability-of-whiteness.html","title":{"rendered":"The Ineffability of Whiteness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read through any literature of the 19th and early 20th Century, and it&#39;s clear that  Italians (and Spaniards and Greeks and Turks) were not considered &quot;White&quot;. They were (code word &quot;swarthy&quot;) Mediterraneans,  passionate and lazy and ruled by the mid-day sun.  Oh, and a lot of them were Papists to boot.<\/p>\n<p>That they were my great-grandparents and beyond &#8230; gives me regular pause to think of what it means to be of the Accepted Mainstream Respectable Normal Folk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/the-secret-history-of-whiteness-1743244820'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/QnzcaKcA1V0EulQ5sjqhytzOAfMQhqFjQs8slxqvf5s8yYv1mmVPStliD4PCU7zNgFVZHeyrZhFV6FzgoJp06kIvp5khVMeZeB1n1pDvqswMPr_dR_qQfWNrPFgJXXafbznUe6Wxp4-SSr-pxzwWt2bplgsSkSAF0rnMUrGCOjGDCDR6345-FDk6axAcN0rvnEUqZ-MuYg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/paleofuture.gizmodo.com\/the-secret-history-of-whiteness-1743244820'>The Secret History of Whiteness<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWhat the hell does it mean for a person to be white?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Uws4ubWfSLf'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read through any literature of the 19th and early 20th Century, and it&#39;s clear that Italians (and Spaniards and Greeks and Turks) were not considered &quot;White&quot;. They were (code word &quot;swarthy&quot;) Mediterraneans, passionate and lazy and ruled by the mid-day sun. Oh, and a lot of them were Papists to boot. That they were my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/the-ineffability-of-whiteness.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Ineffability of Whiteness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,740,378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-race-racism","category-intolerance-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128934,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128900\/revisions\/128934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}