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How the Irish Became White Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Noel Ignatiev


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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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  • Title How the Irish Became White
  • Author Noel Ignatiev
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, New Delhi
  • Date 2008-09-11
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780415963091 / 0415963095
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 13
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Ireland
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Irish
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Ethnic relations, United States - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008037552
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.891

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2009, Page 71

About the author

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

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