{"id":55430,"date":"2017-12-22T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55430"},"modified":"2017-12-22T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T20:12:12","slug":"the-lost-apostrophe-race-the-roots-journey-and-the-rose-of-tralee-pageant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55430","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Lost Apostrophe\u201d?: Race, the roots journey and the \u201cRose of Tralee\u201d pageant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09670882.2017.1412099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Lost Apostrophe\u201d?: Race, the roots journey and the \u201cRose of Tralee\u201d pageant<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/cisr20\/current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Irish Studies Review<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online: 2017-12-06<br \/>\n17 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/09670882.2017.1412099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1080\/09670882.2017.1412099<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/humanities.exeter.ac.uk\/english\/staff\/moynihan\/publications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Lecturer of English<br \/>\n<em>University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Building on recent scholarship on discourses of race in twentieth-century and contemporary <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ireland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ireland<\/a>, this article examines the racialised nature of the \u201croots journey\u201d, in which subjects of Irish descent \u2013 typically white Irish Americans \u2013 travel back to Ireland to trace their roots. Outlining arguments that have emphasised both the reactionary and radical potential of the practices of genealogy and the search for roots, the article focuses on recent developments in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rose_of_Tralee_(festival)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose of Tralee<\/a> contest, an annual beauty pageant in which women of Irish descent compete for the title \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rose_of_Tralee_(song)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rose of Tralee<\/a>\u201d. Noting that three winners since 1998 (and several other competitors since 1994) have been of mixed race ancestry, and emphasising the subsequent roots journeys undertaken by two of these winners to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Philippines<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">India<\/a>, respectively, the article questions whether these roots journey, taking non-white subjects of Irish descent out of Ireland rather than into it, may offer the potential of decoupling \u201cIrishness\u201d and \u201cwhiteness\u201d in radical new ways.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09670882.2017.1412099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outlining arguments that have emphasised both the reactionary and radical potential of the practices of genealogy and the search for roots, the article focuses on recent developments in the Rose of Tralee contest, an annual beauty pageant in which women of Irish descent compete for the title \u201cRose of Tralee\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,8413,8],"tags":[27873,27872,6642],"class_list":["post-55430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","tag-irish-studies-review","tag-rose-of-tralee","tag-sinead-moynihan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55432,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55430\/revisions\/55432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}