In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival. " Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness. " But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.
Always endeavor to really be what you would wish to appear.