How the Irish Became White - (Routledge Classics) by Noel Ignatiev (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>How the Irish Became White</em>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' <em>How the Irish Became White</em> is such a study.'</strong> John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst</p><p>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 <em>How the Irish Became White</em>.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><strong>'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called 'path breaking, ' 'seminal, ' 'essential, ' a 'must read.' <em>How the Irish Became White</em> is such a study.' - </strong><em>John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst</em><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Noel Ignatiev</strong> (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</p>
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