Multiracial Americans
A typical Latino American family may have members with a wide range of racial phenotypes, meaning a Hispanic couple may have children who look white and African and/or Native American and/or Asian. Latino Americans have several self-identifications; most Latinos identify as white in terms of race, while others identify as black and/or Native American and/or Asian. Latinos who do not want to identify as one of those identify simply as Hispanic and/or "some other race" as their race.
Judicial aspects of race in the United States
Although much of the scholarship on studies of whiteness argues that Southern and Eastern Europeans were treated as nonwhite by earlier immigrants, there is also a substantial body of scholarship countering this narrative, most notably "White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890-1945" by historian Thomas Guglielmo. He and others contend that Italians were in fact considered white and were able to reap the immediate benefits that status conferred, such as a right to citizenship, despite the fact that they were somewhat discriminated against for their nationality. He specifically attempts to differentiate between “color” and “race”, claiming that while Italians were racially Italian, when considered in a more binary manner they were still white in color. This undeniable classification as phenotypically white allowed them, along with other Southern and European immigrants to obtain all the benefits that being white conferred. Historian and anthropologist Patrick Wolfe makes a similar argument, saying that the experience of the European immigrant is simply incomparable to that of a black American, making the evidence of their whiteness indisputable.