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How the Irish Became White.

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" ... from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University o...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Ignatiev, Noel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge classics.
Subjects:
Irish Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Irish Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Relations with Irish Americans.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; How the Irish Became White; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 SOMETHING IN THE AIR; 2 WHITE NEGROES AND SMOKED IRISH; 3 THE TRANSUBSTANTIATION OF AN IRISH REVOLUTIONARY; 4 THEY SWUNG THEIR PICKS; 5 THE TUMULTUOUS REPUBLIC; 6 FROM PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY TO WHITE REPUBLIC; AFTERWORD; NOTES; INDEX.

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