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Sociologist of immigration, race, and ethnicity @UChicago / @Princeton PhD / Associate Editor @ AJS
Sep 10, 2020 12 tweets 5 min read
According to the NYT, some European-Americans are non-White. In their analysis of the most powerful people in the U.S. today, the paper classifies Europeans from the Iberian Peninsula like Spaniards and Portuguese as non-White. @nytimes nytimes.com/interactive/20… For example, it classifies both John Garamendi, whose last name is Basque (from Northern Spain), and Devin Nunes, a 3rd generation Portuguese American as “non-White.” @JohnGaramendi