PhD in US legal history focus on antisemitism and racism in the law. she/her. Diaspora Jew praying for Jews & Palestinians
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May 12, 2023 • 51 tweets • 9 min read
A thread on why I'm so emphatic that whiteness is a legal category and cultural bigotry/xenophobia/religious discrimination should not be conflated with whiteness exclusion /1
Racial distinction was codified in law from its inception in British North American colonies. The first law that distinguished based on race was a 1642 law that taxed Black women's labor but not white women's /2