Denise, thanks for writing this and expressing something that I’ve been mulling over now for some time. I’m actually working on a blog post on “How Greeks Became White” — its about half written — but from a different angle. Tracing out the moves that turned Greeks (first ancient, then modern) white is tedious, but important. It’s this idea I am calling “whiteness creep” or “whiteness encroachment”. It is a big question that hopefully more people will consider and work on.

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    Rebecca Futo Kennedy

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