re: #96 celticdragon

I am in the emiddle of a book right now about what your granddad went through.

When he came over, he would have been called a “hunky” and would not have been considered a white person at all. “Hunky work” was down in the mines or in the fire rooms and boiler rooms doing the hottest and dirtiest work around that Ango Saxon and German descended whites didn’t have to do anymore.

Working Toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrant’s Became White. The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs

Sounds like a good book. I’ve heard about “hunky” from my grandmother.