Again, recency is relative. And arguing recency on an ever changing subject is weird imho.
You could also argue that it didn’t change that much, since most of the key characteristics didn’t change, only who fulfills these.
For the record, I was trying to add to your comment
You didn’t get my point. When the legal definition changes from “people X is white” to “people Y is white”, that does not necessarily chance on what characteristics the definition is based. It just means that the perception of who fulfills these characteristics changed. And historically, not being white usually was depending on a people or culture being perceived as (for example) “brutish”, “uncivilised”, “less intelligent” etc. These characteristics have not changed much.
Can you point me to a non-US source showing that Italians (or rather people from the area of modern day Italy) were debating or thinking about concepts like “whiteness” in the 17th century? (Or really at any time). I am really curious where those debates among members of a country or realm were using that as a category in discussions or considerations.
Again, recency is relative. And arguing recency on an ever changing subject is weird imho.
You could also argue that it didn’t change that much, since most of the key characteristics didn’t change, only who fulfills these.
That did not come across.
I’ll post this once more since the definitions of Whiteness change a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
You didn’t get my point. When the legal definition changes from “people X is white” to “people Y is white”, that does not necessarily chance on what characteristics the definition is based. It just means that the perception of who fulfills these characteristics changed. And historically, not being white usually was depending on a people or culture being perceived as (for example) “brutish”, “uncivilised”, “less intelligent” etc. These characteristics have not changed much.
Can you point me to a non-US source showing that Italians (or rather people from the area of modern day Italy) were debating or thinking about concepts like “whiteness” in the 17th century? (Or really at any time). I am really curious where those debates among members of a country or realm were using that as a category in discussions or considerations.