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Nicolino Applauso

Oct 22, 2026

34:34
Wow.
34:34
And the Italian, you know, if you look at them, especially Sicilian, Southern Italians, I'm also Sicilian myself from my mother's side.
34:42
On the census in New Orleans, they have three groups, the whites, the black and the Italians.
34:50
And they did that categorization because they didn't know where to place the Italians.
34:54
And the Italians were their own category.
34:56
They were white enough and black enough to be black.
35:00
So they were this hybrid category.

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41:44
How have sentiments about him evolved?

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