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  • A minstrel song, written in 1844 after a series of Irish-led riots in Philadelphia, noted the beginning of a shift among white-skinned immigrants:

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • He found that most plantation owners considered the Italian immigrant to be “a white-skinned Negro” and treated him accordingly.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The big-bodied, white-skinned northern dweller, rude and ferocious, bellows his anger uncouthly and drives a gross fist into the face of his foe.

    CHAPTER 20 2010

  • She's kinda like Billy Blank in a white-skinned, blonde-haired woman's body.

    Jill S. Brown: Infomercial Workouts: Are They For You? Jill S. Brown 2010

  • The traditions of the blood laid hold of him, and he felt strangely at one with the white-skinned, yellow-haired giants of the younger world.

    CHAPTER 14 2010

  • While this indubitably was a white-skinned god, it was not his god.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • Major Woodruff's thesis is that the white-skinned, blue-eyed Aryan, born to government and command, ever leaving his primeval, overcast and foggy home, ever commands and governs the rest of the world and ever perishes because of the too-white light he encounters.

    CHAPTER XXII 2010

  • And yet Grey Beaver was as a child-god among these white-skinned ones.

    The Enemy of His Kind 2010

  • The fact that white-skinned Grace has stolen this Dipo show—because she has—somehow seems an incarnation of that slavery.

    Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011

  • Another promoted a theory that “Native Americans actually committed genocide against the original white-skinned inhabitants of North America.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Freedom of Speech vs. Workplace Harassment Law — A Big Free Speech Win in the Ninth Circuit 2010

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