@c0rb34u@hostux.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr yes, intercultural exchanges happened in the context of deeply unequal access to publishing, remuneration, etc. Copyright law itself is a product of this racism, as Matthew D. Morrison makes abundantly clear in his history of copyright and blackface minstrelsy, _Blacksound_. All I was pointing out is for light-skinned immigrants from places other than Northern Europe, this was not as simple as "white man steals credit from black man." First of all, Maggio would not have been considered white, and indeed the discourse on swarthy Sicilian anarchists at the time was racialized. Italian immigrants claims to whiteness through appropriating Black music really picked up a few years later with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
