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A few times, I have tweeted about the elasticity of whiteness and how it expands to maintain white hegemony. This is an example of the process of becoming white, of some Asian-Americans allying with whiteness to oppose race-conscious programs that remediate historic oppression.
Just as people of Slavic and Meditteranean ancestry have been added to whiteness, as 2050 approaches, in addition to race-based voter suppression, I am certain that some Asians will "become white" or at least be in alliance with white as hegemonic powers
It won't be Pacific Islanders, but Chinese and Japanese Americans, possibly Korean-Americans. Perhaps Indian Americans. Whiteness is, after all, not a race, but a power construct that is at heart not-Black
