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Actually, racial categorizations are socially constructed (created by members of society), and beliefs vary among societies and over time within societies. A person can be seen as one race in Brazil and another in the United States. Even within the United States, racial categories have changed many times. All one has to do is look at old U.S. Census records to see how racial categories change over time—even within the same nation (Chappell 2017)! We discuss construction of the concept of race in Chapter 8.

▲ In the early 20th century, immigrants to the United States of Irish and Italian ancestry were not considered “White” in Virginia and several other states. In some cases where parochial schools were not an option, Irish and Italian children were forced to go to racially segregated public schools with Black students.

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