How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) (Volume 137) 1st Edition

by Noel Ignatiev (Author)

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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 of Massachussetts, Amherst

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.

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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 of Massachussetts, Amherst

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Noel Ignatiev (b. 1940) is best known for his call to abolish the white race. He was a co-founder and co-editor of the journal Race Traitor (an anthology from which won an American Book Award), and a co-founder of the New Abolitionist Society. He teaches history at the Massachusetts College of Art. American History

Series: Routledge Classics
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780415963091
ISBN-13: 978-0415963091
ASIN: 0415963095
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
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Not worth the paper it is printed on.

August 20, 2018

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One of the most racist views of the Irish ever written. Really disregarding what it is to be Irish.

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Clarke Donovan

but very good local sociological-political-ethnic history of Philly in that period

September 18, 2017

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Well written, and thorough, but not that much about the Irish-American assimilation in general, as I was thinking it would be. Very specific, particularly about Philadelphia in the 1820s-1870s. A bit too local and detailed for what I was hoping for, but very good local sociological-political-ethnic history of Philly in that period.

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Five Stars

May 6, 2016

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An extremely interesting point of view to have on the Irish coming to and living in America

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Antoine Doinel

Buy a cheap copy if you're going to lend this out. People keep this book if you lend it to them.

March 14, 2018

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This is my third copy. People kept the copies I lent to them.

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Charlie G

This is a good read on Irish and American history

January 10, 2015

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This is a good read on Irish and American history. It tells the warts and all stories though, so be prepared to hear the bad and the good in American history. It's not a story of good and evil, just a story of people and history.

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Oliver J Dilworth

Great read. Strongly recommended

September 2, 2015

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Great read. Strongly recommended!

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Gerry

Very scholarly but stopped too soon

September 27, 2017

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A very scholarly treatise which explained lot about the Irish and abolitionist dynamic in pre-Civil war America. Gave me some real insight into the transition of the Irish from immigrant to racists which was a better place for them to be. Very sad how given the history of oppression in Ireland they were so ready to take their place along whites in exploring blacks to their economic advantage.
However, I was disappointed that the story pretty much stopped at or even before the Civil War and didn't even get much into the role of thIrish in the Civil War. I think there was a lot more to be told.
Not an easy read.

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J. F. -Lackey

I like it

September 8, 2014

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Fascinating.

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