Bank officials racialized Italians as descendants of Roman slaves

Evidence

[T]he Italian people are the descendants of Roman slaves. Aft er the de- cay of the Roman power, they remained for some fourteen centuries under the domination of various warring sets of foreigners . — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1406

Categorization

• QUESTION: The excerpt is cut off mid-sentence at the paragraph boundary — the full claim about Roman slaves needs the continuation of this passage to stand on its own.
• XREF: connects to: Italians in the American South were raced toward Blackness and lynched — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 392; Italian immigrants faced Jim Crow and anti-miscegenation laws — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 393; Southern European immigrants were lynched for being racialized as Black — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 392 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Italians in the American South were raced toward Blackness and lynched #corroborates (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 392
• Italian immigrants faced Jim Crow and anti-miscegenation laws #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 393
• Southern European immigrants were lynched for being racialized as Black #corroborates (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 392
• White supremacy could expel Italians from whiteness when useful. #expands (0.78) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 141