Title: How the Irish became white /
Authors: Ignatiev, Noel
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Irish Americans Cultural assimilation.; Irish Americans Politics and government.; African Americans Relations with Irish Americans
Abstract: How the Irish Became White explodes a number of myths surrounding race in our society. Focusing on how the Irish were assimilated as "whites" in America, Noel Ignatiev uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish Americans and African Americans and draws a powerful connection between Irish "success" in nineteenth-century American society and their embrace of white supremacy.
Contents: I. Something in the Air -- II. White Negroes and Smoked Irish -- III. The Transubstantiation of an Irish Revolutionary -- IV. They Swung their Picks -- V. The Tumultuous Republic -- VI. From Protestant Ascendancy to White Republic.