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Somewhere in the journey [immigration], Europeans became something they had never been or needed to be before&hellip; &ldquo;No one was white before he/she came to America,&rdquo; James Baldwin once said. Their geographic origin was their passport to the dominant caste. &ldquo;The European immigrant&rsquo;s experience was decisively shaped by their entering an arena where Europeanness–that is to…