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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Espertus (talk | contribs) at 20:04, 27 August 2019 (→Parent section to Jewish Americans: new section). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.


Adding/Revising Material to Arab American

I am planning on adding some material to update and revise the section on Arab Americans. As it currently stands there is limited information about the Arab American status as white after George Shishim's case which was only the beginning. I will include briefly some information about George Dow (and link to the Wikipedia article on his case) and also include a few more citations from scholars working in this area, including John Tehranian, Sarah Gualtieri, and Ian Haney-Lopez.BradleyZopf (talk) 15:47, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Has/have

There is a grammatical error in the first sentence of this article but I'm not a user so I'm not sure how to edit it. The verb should be "have" to agree with the plural subject of the sentence, "the legal and social strictures defining white Americans" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.103.10.7 (talk) 18:11, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

 Done --ChiveFungi (talk) 23:34, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Jews as a race in the United States

(cross-posted to Talk:American Jews)
 This issue comes up periodically, so I wanted to bring to editors' attention a recent news item: last week, in what is being described as an "unprecedented" legal decision, a U.S. magistrate ruled in a civil rights lawsuit that for purposes of federal anti-discrimination laws, Jews can be considered a race (not just a religious group) and therefore a protected racial class. It remains to be seen whether the ruling, which was the basis for declining a defendant's motion to dismiss a case, will be appealed, or whether the defendant will win the case and have no need to appeal, but in the meantime, for the first time, a court has ruled that Jews are protected by laws against racial discrimination. Details are available in this article in The Washington Post. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 03:39, 22 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Parent section to Jewish Americans

I notice that "Jewish Americans" is a subsection of "Asian Americans". Since the references seem to be about Ashkenazi Jews, I think this should be under "European Americans". (Sephardic Jews might be considered Hispanic.) Before changing the page, I'd like to give people watching this page a chance to comment. Espertus (talk) 20:04, 27 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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