Race card
How did the English become white? Gary Taylor finds the answer in a piece of 17th-century street theatreLike any other word, "white" - in the modern, racial sense - was invented. And it is possible to pinpoint the first popular appearance of the idea that the English are "white people" in a piece of London street theatre, in 1613. Drama was the only mass media in the England of that time. The largest print run for a …