01 June 2025
Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity
An interactive essay that traces the broader historical patterns through which dramatically inclusive new identities among whites formed in Chicago history without a challenge of the color line.

Inclusion itself was often based on drawing, extending, and policing color lines.
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