But as I started writing the book, it was clear that I wasn't really interested in doing that project very much, that my personal stories just didn't line up against this history in the way that I wanted to, that the juxtaposition wasn't working narratively and the writing wasn't as good. So California is really a lab for whiteness during this period, and we think of whiteness as some phenomenon of antiquity or the 17th century maybe, but it's totally being formed here in the 19th and 20th century where you have people from all over the world coming to California and at the same time the authorities and scientific authorities and governmental authorities, et cetera, developing codes of whiteness and segregated labor markets, not based just on this new term of whiteness and then that's…