"Brodkin argued that Jewish GIs (and others, like Irish) were assigned to the political category of whiteness by the US government in part to institutionalize segregation based on professions and housing. "
Interestingly, while Japanese-American solider like my grandfather were segregated into the 442nd, which was based out of Hattiesburg, MS, the governor of MS declared them "white." Shows how much hatred of blackness is the central issue in a lot of this.
"Brodkin argued that Jewish GIs (and others, like Irish) were assigned to the political category of whiteness by the US government in part to institutionalize segregation based on professions and housing. "
Interestingly, while Japanese-American solider like my grandfather were segregated into the 442nd, which was based out of Hattiesburg, MS, the governor of MS declared them "white." Shows how much hatred of blackness is the central issue in a lot of this.