1/I found some interesting survey data about American racial stereotypes in "The Politics of Belonging", by Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka. https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Belonging-Opinion-Immigration-American/dp/022605716X …
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In other words, I thought that after the passage of an anti-Italian immigration law, people started using "wop" as a backronym to imply that Italians came illegally.
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It's possible. I guess we'd have to look into it.
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I was told by someone who knows things that it actually comes from the Italian word "guappo", meaning a swaggerer, pimp, or ruffian
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Originally yeah
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Ah, so what you're saying is that it started out that way but over time it came to mean "without papers?"
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That was my impression.
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