Italians, like the people that populate Italy, don’t think of themselves as white. They see themselves as Italian.

Americans of Italian descent have a complicated relationship with “whiteness”. White is not a biology. It is a malleable group designed to keep people labeled black underfoot.

Finally we have an answer

the funny thing about Sicilians…

And Luigi isn’t a man or patriarchy is over. Or maybe there are more than one system of oppression active at the same time and intertwined. We will never know.