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Title: How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev ISBN: 0-415-91825-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.41 (22 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Perhaps, there's something ELSE to be learned...
Comment: The Irish starved in Ireland, the Irish worked (and starved) in our coal mines, they served in our Civil War and yet, through decades of opression in the United States, they were still able to find a way to make life more comfortable for this generation. How? Good old-fashioned hard work (for the most part. Molly Maguires don't count). There's no conspiracy against the blacks or Hispanics. The Irish were poor, looking for jobs, got jobs (the lowest paying ones at that), found opportunities and ran with them. That's all there is to it and I don't see how it can be interpreted as anything but a triumph over poverty.
Rating: 1
Summary: Get a clue.
Comment: Taking Ignatiev seriously will only anger you. Here is another Harvard professor trying to cause controversy and media for himself. Mr. Ignatiev attacks the Irish and blames them for the ills of the black man and pretty much calls them cowards for turning what he calls "White", His use of arcane 18th century material fails to grasp the Irish in there true immigrant form; for that we need to study the 1840's and the Irish genocide. Save your money and do not line the pockets of an Irish Hater.
ERIN GO BRAGH!!!
Rating: 1
Summary: Racist Crap
Comment: I picked up this book hoping to have a better understanding of the Irish past, and all I got was a racist slant on an otherwise abused people. It is sad that even in the modern day the Irish must still deal with racist garbage like this. Mr. Ignatiev should try reading more on the Irish before writing a book of half-truths and presumptions.
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Title: The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class by David R. Roediger ISBN: 1859842402 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Invention of the White Race: The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America (Vol 2 (Paper)) by Theodore W. Allen ISBN: 1859840760 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control (Vol 1 (Paper)) by Theodore W. Allen ISBN: 086091660X Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Erin's Daughters in America: Irish Immigrant Women in the Nineteenth Century by Hasia R. Diner ISBN: 0801828724 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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Title: Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson ISBN: 0674951913 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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