TehBamski@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agoFar too many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.message-squaremessage-square163linkfedilinkarrow-up1324arrow-down143
arrow-up1281arrow-down1message-squareFar too many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East.TehBamski@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 months agomessage-square163linkfedilink
minus-squareBaroqueInMind@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoGot any further readings for this? Thank you for sharing that knowledge. Yeah racists are going to racist
minus-squareTechLich@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoSure! I stole the quote from the wiki article: Anti-Italianism This article was also pretty interesting: https://accenti.ca/jim-crow-and-italian-immigrants-in-the-american-west/ There’s also an interesting series of short US LIbrary of Congress sources for history classrooms on immigration that has a section on Italians too: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/under-attack/ I can’t vouch for the veracity of any of these since it’s not really my field but it’s interesting to see how how stuff like this has shifted over time and where the parallels to modern racism and xenophobia are.
Got any further readings for this? Thank you for sharing that knowledge. Yeah racists are going to racist
Sure! I stole the quote from the wiki article: Anti-Italianism
This article was also pretty interesting: https://accenti.ca/jim-crow-and-italian-immigrants-in-the-american-west/
There’s also an interesting series of short US LIbrary of Congress sources for history classrooms on immigration that has a section on Italians too: https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/immigration/italian/under-attack/
I can’t vouch for the veracity of any of these since it’s not really my field but it’s interesting to see how how stuff like this has shifted over time and where the parallels to modern racism and xenophobia are.