Intersectionality: Identity Politics and Class Consciousness.
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The Dialectic of Self and Society
I think it's important to note that throughout this entire time, there were newspapers that controlled discourse to mainstream Omaha. And so whiteness is a social construct, a social construct. It's not even about the color of your skin. So when those white mobs went to the blackheads of town to riot, they included Italians and Irish and Czechs and Germans who were white then. But in other in other instances were not white. I'm my my ancestral surname is O'Shea. They came over as the O’Shea from Ireland had to drop the O to avoid discrimination. You can call yourself whatever you want, but society's going to treat you however you want.
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