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Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

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Thomas Nast cartoon asserting the equal worth of Irish and blacks

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Part 2 of 3

Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

What are here called the ‘whiteness historians’ ought not to be confused with ‘Whiteness Studies’ (WS) or ‘critical race studies’ (or certain other new ‘disciplines’ favored by ‘the New Know-Nothings’), (more…)

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One of Thomas Nast’s 19th-century anti-Irish cartoons

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Apropos of Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York and London: Routledge, 1995)

‘We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English’. — Winston Churchill

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