Title How the Irish became white / Noel Ignatiev.

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New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Manchester, Main Library - New Materials	305.8916 IGNATIEV	DUE 04-24-24
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Description	xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Series	Routledge classics
	Routledge classics.
Note	This edition originally published in 1995.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Subject	Irish Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
	Irish Americans -- Race identity.
	Irish Americans -- Politics and government.
	African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans.
	United States -- Race relations.
	United States -- Ethnic relations.
	15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
	71.62 ethnic relations (sociology) (NL-LeOCL)077597362
	African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans.
	Irish Americans -- Cultural assimilation.
	Irish Americans -- Politics and government.
	Irish Americans -- Race identity.
	United States -- Ethnic relations.
	United States -- Race relations.
	African Americans -- Relations with Irish Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799681
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Irish Americans -- Cultural assimilation. (OCoLC)fst00978935
	Irish Americans -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00978946
	Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Assimilation Soziologie. (DE-588)4139304-1
	Ethnische Beziehungen. (DE-588)4176973-9
	Iren. (DE-588)4109151-6
	Schwarze. (DE-588)4116433-7
	United States. (DE-588)4078704-7
	United States. (NL-LeOCL)078939836
	15.85 history of America. (NL-LeOCL)07761190X
	71.62 ethnic relations (sociology) (NL-LeOCL)077597362
	Förenta staterna -- rasrelationer.
	Förenta staterna -- etniska relationer -- historia.
	Iren.
	United States.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1800-1900.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish became white. New York : Routledge, 2009 (OCoLC)768078635
ISBN	9780415963091 (paperback)
	0415963095 (paperback)
	0415913845
	9780415913843
	0415918251
	9780415918251

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