when italians were considered black

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When Italians were Blacks: The dark-skinned Sicilians …

When Italians were “Blacks”: The dark-skinned Sicilians

Southern Italians were considered black in the South and were subjected to the Jim Crow laws of segregation. They weren’t allowed to marry whites. It was difficult, damn near impossible. They were designated as black on census forms if they lived in the South and that is because the majority of them were dark-skinned Sicilians.

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Did you know that Italians were once considered black in …
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Southern Italians were considered black in the South and were subjected to the Jim Crow laws of segregation. They weren ‘ t allowed to marry whites. It was difficult, damn near impossible. They were designated as black on census forms if they lived in the South and that is because the majority of them were dark-skinned Sicilians.

https://southphillyreview.com/2019/10/31/cardella-the-black-italians/

Cardella: The Black Italians – South Philly Review

Cardella: The Black Italians

Sicilians were the black Italians. I’m pretty sure that dad identified himself as Sicilian, even though only his father was from that region of Italy, because he liked the aura of danger that came with it. He thought it made him more interesting. Friends tell me that the same discussions were occurring at that time in their own households.

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Are Italians black? DNA tests reveal many have African blood
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Are Italians black? Today we use DNA tests to tell us about all kinds of things — from confirming a child’s true father to the innocence of a man sitting on death row. And now, Officials from West Chester, Pennsylvania – both the university and the borough – are out telling you your genetic ethnicity.

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Opinion | How Italians Became ‘White’ – The New York Times
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12 oct. 2019Italians who had come to the country as free white persons were often marked as black because they accepted black jobs in the Louisiana sugar fields or because they chose to live among…

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Italian discrimination in the US – Life in Italy
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Italians, like all European peoples, are racially Caucasian or white. However, especially in the mid to late 19th century, Italian immigrants to America were often met with racial prejudice.

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How Italians Became ‘White’ | History News Network
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The penalties of blackness went well beyond name-calling in the apartheid South. Italians who had come to the country as free white persons were often marked as black because they accepted…

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The Grisly Story of America’s Largest Lynching – HISTORY
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They were Italian-Americans. March 14, 1891 would go down in history as one of the darkest moments in the United States’ long history of anti-Italian discrimination. It began with the murder of …

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ItalianGenealogy.com – Italians and slavery in the US
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Italians, in the south were considered non-white…and were subjected to the jim crow laws of segragation. In fact 11 Italians were lynched in New Oleans, in the late 1800’s. Frequently, Italians, living in the south, were designated as Black on federal census forms. These were usually dark skined Sicillians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/03/22/sorry-but-the-irish-were-always-white-and-so-were-the-italians-jews-and-so-on/

Sorry, but the Irish were always ‘white’ (and so were …
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22 mars 2017If you use such objective tests, you find that Irish, Jews, Italians and other white ethnics were indeed considered white by law and by custom (as in the case of labor unions).