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Start with the classics: Greeks and Romans didn't see skin as a scorecard-they chased ideals of pale beauty tied to class, not continents, till medieval scholars started sorting folks by "bloodlines" that justified crusades and conquests. Fast-forward to the Age of Exploration, where Portuguese traders slapped labels on Africans and Asians to grease the slave wheels, turning "white" into a club badge for Europeans scrambling for gold and glory. It's a tangled web where science bent to empire, from Linnaeus's plant-like human ranks to Gobineau's aristocratic rants that lit fuses under nationalism.By the 19th century, whiteness got a makeover: Anglo-Saxons crowning themselves top tier while Italians and Slavs queued at Ellis Island for "provisional" status, their accents and olive tones scrutinized like bad passports. Darwin's kin twisted evolution into "survival of the whitest," propping up Jim Crow laws and eugenics labs that sterilized the "unfit." Yet cracks showed-Irish rebelsflipping from "black" caricatures to blue-collar insiders, proving the whole setup was as sturdy as a house of cards in a stiff breeze.Today, that history haunts headlines: from DNA tests rewriting family trees to debates over who "counts" in census boxes, whiteness remains a shape-shifter. This book doesn't preach-it pokes holes in the myths, handing you the threads to untangle how a made-up divide became real enough to redraw worlds. Dive in if you're ready to question the mirror.