LEADER 03844oam 2200553I 450 001 9910163874503321 005 20230810002101.0 010 $a1-315-39344-1 010 $a1-315-39346-8 010 $a1-315-39345-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315393469 035 $a(CKB)3710000001051232 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4799883 035 $a(OCoLC)971613634 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001051232 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFamine Irish and the American racial state /$fPeter D. O'Neill 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (295 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aRoutledge Advances in American History ;$v6 311 $a0-367-34444-0 311 $a1-138-22813-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Black and green Atlantic crossings in the famine era -- 2. Irish Catholic empire building in America -- 3. The writin' Irish, or, Catholic Irish America's famine-era authors -- 4. A code for the true American Catholic man or woman -- 5. Gender laundering Irish women and Chinese men in San Francisco -- 6. In California, workers divided -- 7. An Irish worker's postnational horizon. 330 2 $a"Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government reports, laws, sermons, memoirs, and how-to manuals, to make its case. It challenges the claim that the Irish 'became white' in the United States, showing that the claim fails to take into full account the legal position of the Irish in the nineteenth-century US state--a state that deemed the Irish 'white' upon arrival. The Irish thus not only fitted into the US racial state; they helped to form it. Till now, little heed has been paid to the state's role in the Americanization of the Irish or to the Irish role in the development of US state institutions. Distinguishing American citizenship from American nationality, this volume journeys to California to analyze the means by which the Irish gained acceptance in both categories, at the expense of the Chinese. Along the way, it contests ideas that have taken hold within American studies. One is the notion that the Roman Catholic Church operated outside of the power structure of the nineteenth-century United States. On the contrary, Famine Irish and the American Racial State argues, the Irish-led corporate Catholic Church became deeply imbricated in US state structures. Its final chapter discusses a radical, transnational, Irish tradition that offers a glimpse at a postnational future"--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge advances in American history ;$v6. 606 $aIrish Americans$zCalifornia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aChinese Americans$zCalifornia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIrish Americans$xRace identity$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aIrish Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aCalifornia$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aIrish Americans$xHistory 615 0$aChinese Americans$xHistory 615 0$aIrish Americans$xRace identity$xHistory 615 0$aIrish Americans$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 676 $a305.800973 700 $aO'Neill$b Peter D.$f1954-,$0976292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163874503321 996 $aFamine Irish and the American racial state$92223874 997 $aUNINA