Discussion:
1. The combined readings including Constructing Race, Creating White Privilege and Melting Pot: Myth or Reality reveals two significant periods defining a whitening of Euro-ethnic whites during 1600's Bacon's Rebellion, and19th century working-class whites.
2. Does this current time period with the rise of Trump signify a third period of "whiteness" in America within the same working-class whites who have historically benefited from the "psychological wage" of whiteness, yet have never enjoyed the actual privileges of being white?
3. What does this dichotomous "white" and "not-quite-white" say about race in America?
4. Does the white-identity status add pressure to all European-ethnics to Anglo-conform and identify as white --thus depriving White Americans of an authentic ethnic identity?