The Irish and the imagination of race : White supremacy across the Atlantic in the nineteenth century / Patrick R. O'Malley.

"This book analyzes the role of Irishness in the nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States. Centering the years immediately preceding the American Civil War, it asks how the seemingly liberationist politics of many mid-ninetee...

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