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Matthew Sadler
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The historian Thomas Guglielmo has a great book, "White on Arrival". Naturalization law limited citizenship to free white persons, so Italians were eligible upon arrival.
So in that sense, Italians didn't even need to put in that effort. They were already legally white in ways that others weren't.
2025-07-22T00:41:16.841Z