Here at JSTOR you can read the first page of this article (26 pages) and register for free to read the rest and 100 free articles per month. One sees how gangs and turf wars originated with the Irish but also set the urban role model for Italians and blacks and created a pan ethnic 'white' identity for Jews, Italians, Poles after several generations. Reading this article, my father's religious devotion, membership in legion of mary, knights of columbus but also his mention of street battles with French boys and his large family in Montreal come to mind. Irish often marry outwardly more readily as my uncles and aunt and father. I find my pugnacious direct style might come from this background. Catholic universalism carried over to all religions and races in a sort of parochial globalism at the personal and neighborhood level would be the Irish solution. Not ivory tower talk. Do the dirty political deals, get blacks into the fold like the Italians of old in NYC and Chicago. The definition of white will change to mean ever darker shades of Asian, latinos, then mixed and slowly it will be just be dropped altogether. Blacks define themselves as separate and create whiteness and vice-versa. Otherwise turf wars between Jews, Italians, Poles and Irish would have continued. Perhaps the black counterpoint will in the same manner integrate latinos and Asians negatively as 'nonblacks'. For example Arab Americans will, like 4th generation Japanese, become just another white subgroup. In the Middle East hatred between sunni, shia, jew, in America, just not black. Amazing how stronger differences unite people. By understanding the dynamics of and development of ethnic identity in our history we can better come to grips with the current situation. Read more history, my racist forebears notwithstanding.
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