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  <title><![CDATA[How the Irish Became White]]></title>
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  <default_description>Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Focusing on how the Irish were assimilated as &quot;whites&quot; in America, Noel Ignatiev uncovers the roots of conflict between Irish-Americans and African-Americans and draws a powerful connection between the embracing of white supremacy and Irish &quot;success&quot; in 19th century American society. Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to help gain and secure their newly found place in the White Republic.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">9</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Noel Ignatiev]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 27 07:54:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do you have any racially neurotic friends? sure you do. have you ever noticed that they often think they're being profound and incisive, but they're actually just speaking and thinking in broad generalities that hold no water when examined in any kind of detail? of course you have. have you ever wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13706170">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[History is best written if it retells the story of the past to explain how we all got to where we are now. Noel Ignatiev's, &quot;How the Irish Became White&quot;, is one of those books where the present is illuminated by the past. He attempts to explain how Irish Americans embraced the privileges o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11028268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6263587">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 15 20:03:58 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 15 13:29:33 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;It is a curious fact,&quot; wrote John Finch, an English Owenite who traveled the United States in 1843, &quot;that the democratic party, and particularly the poorer class of Irish immigrants in America, are greater enemies to the negro population, and greater advocates for the continuance of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6263587">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67892754">
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    <body><![CDATA[SO BORING.  This is such an interesting subject, but the writing is so dry  that it reads more like the worst text book you've ever had.  You can still manage to get something out of it, but it certainly isn't easy.]]></body>
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    <review id="63315578">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 13 13:06:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book outlines how the irish became a part of &quot;white&quot; class society. Predictably (at least to me), the racial conversion of Irish Americans depends largely on politics and war.]]></body>
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    <review id="28315863">
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 19:03:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ignatiev has gotten a lot of crap from people saying he paints the Irish as a bunch of racist assholes but I didn't see that in this history of the creation of the white race.  I think that he covers a fair amount of ground, hitting on issues of race, class, and a small bit of gender (though not muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28315863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12431604">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is one of Noel's best pieces of writings. He is always challenging, insightful and incisive. This book, fully loaded with a tight historical narrative, avoids some of the pitfalls that other works in the White Studies canon fall into. That is that the antidote to WSP is simple individua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12431604">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24738886">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are Irish and want to feel even worse about yourself, or if you just plain don't like white people, I highly recommend this book.  What started as an opportunity to make an interesting, educated, intelligent point on the history of race relations in America, quickly degraded into a tired, nar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24738886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7302781">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Author tires to understand how the Irish in America moved from being an ethnic group as low as African Americans in the 1800s, to becoming &quot;white.&quot;  His main argument is that politicians and  certain interests had to elevate the Irish in society in order to keep blacks down on the lower ru...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7302781">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17986218">
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was pretty world shattering.  my views on american life in the 19th century have completely changed, and my concept of how racism developed, and even what it is exactly have been called into question.]]></body>
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    <review id="34128552">
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    <body><![CDATA[For all our students (not to mention us) who care about race in America, this study is mind-twisting.  Social studies and history teachers, I'm looking your way . . .  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34128552]]></url>
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    <review id="27344307">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not what I thought it was going to be.  Ignatiev focuses almost entirely on Irish anti-black racism, and not other ways of assimilation.]]></body>
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    <review id="6178257">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[US/Irish history buffs]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[lots and lots of history...American and Isish, which is not commonly known ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was great to be able put this part of my ancestry into context.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[trash]]></body>
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