How the Irish became white
By: Noel Ignatiev.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780415913843
Subjects: Irish Americans -- Cultural assimilation; Irish Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-228) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Something in the Air; title: White negroes and smoked Irish; title: The transubstantiation of an Irish revolutionary; title: They swung their picks; title: The tumultuous republic; title: From Protestant ascendancy to White republic; title: Afterword