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'8230frm time to time a study comes along that
truly can be called 8216pah
breaking,82178216seinal,82178216esential,
821 7a 8216mut read.8217How the Irish Became
White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du
Bois Department of Afro-American Studies,
University of Massachussetts, AmherstThe 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 8211a land of opportunity
8211they found a very different form of social
hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a
person8217sskin. Noel Ignatiev8217s1995 book
8211the first published work of one of
America8217sleading and most controversial histo
rians 8211tells 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.
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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)