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How the Irish Became White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2009 (Originally published in 1995)
\n276 pages
\n6 B\/W Illustrations
\nPaperback ISBN: 9780415963091
\nHardback ISBN: 9781138127777
\neBook ISBN: 9780203473009<\/p>\n

Noel Ignatiev<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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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 \u2013 a land of opportunity \u2013 they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person\u2019s skin. Noel Ignatiev\u2019s 1995 book \u2013 the first published work of one of America\u2019s leading and most controversial historians \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n