Watch professor Painter’s interview, The Expanding Definition of Whiteness and answer these questions in
Answer with 1 paragraph per question:
• How did upward mobilization, assimilation and education of Irish and Jews expand the definition of ‘white’?
• How has the word “white”, as a description of a people group changed over time?
• What do you think is the future of this word?

Books:
• Takaki, Ronald (2008). A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.
** I understand the writer have access to this book so I will not be providing book pages.
• History of Minorities in America Custom Electronic Edition Slim Pack – Sage Reader
Link to Screenshot pages for Sage Reader: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RyiN6U5QvqDdrOusZUIUhSzYMdETS9QG/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115476296316985384914&rtpof=true&sd=true
Read:
• Whiteness and the Shifting Roads of Immigrant America 1780-1960 (Shaw) Duplicated by permission from Sage Publishing. ** See uploaded file.
• Ch.6 Exiles from Ireland (Takaki)
• Ch.11 The Exodus from Russia (Takaki)

Watch: https://bigthink.com/videos/the-expanding-definition-of-whiteness/