This factsheet explores how French Canadians and Irish Catholic immigrants actively fought to be included into 'whiteness' in the 19th and 20th centuries. The factsheet explains how a framework of inclusion reinscribes systemic inequality and details how 'race' acts as a political tool that aids projects of colonialism and white supremacy.
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