Assimilated European ethnics adopted the same racial explanations that had once targeted them

Evidence

By the 1960s, Whites whose Italian and Irish grandparents had been victims of Anglo-Protestant nativist hate decades earlier now agreed with the scholars Nathan Glazer’s and Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s claims that cultural and racial deficiencies of Blacks, Native Americans, and Latinos explained why they were disproportionately poorer, less educated, and more likely to be incarcerated. The onus of blame was on racial minorities, not a systemically racist society. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 419

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Sides/One Square Inch themes of blame-shifting, and to the general pattern in my library of formerly-targeted groups adopting dominant narratives once they gain entry — parallels the racial hierarchy in Things Fall Apart.