Bibliograph

How the Irish became white, Noel Ignatiev

Type

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How the Irish became white, Noel Ignatiev

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

How the Irish became white

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

246198199

Responsibility statement

Noel Ignatiev

Series statement

Routledge classics

Summary

"The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country -- a land of opportunity -- they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person's skin. Noel Ignatiev's 1995 book - the first published work of one of America's leading and most controversial historians -- tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White."--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Something in the air -- White negroes and smoked Irish -- The transubstantiation of an Irish revolutionary -- They swung their picks -- The tumultuous republic -- From Protestant ascendancy to white republic

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