Racism in the Irish experience
This work is an analysis of the racialisation of Irish identities. The author examines key phases in the historical development of an Irish racial consciousness, including 16th century colonisation and 19th century immigration to America and Great Britain
viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780745319971, 9780745319964, 0745319971, 0745319963
52948923
Sociological frameworks for understanding racism
Money, migrations and attitudes
Racing the Irish in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
The 'filthy aristocracy of skin': becoming white in the USA
In the belly of the beast: nineteenth-century Britain, Empire and the role of 'race' in home rule
Other people's diasporas: the 'racialisation' of the asylum issue
"New racism", old racisms and the role of migratory experience
"Remember Blanqui?": nation state, community and some paradoxes of Irish anti-racism
Beyond the new socio-economic "pale": racialisation and belonging in contemporary Ireland