Famine Irish and the American racial state / / Peter D. O'Neill

• Autore: O'Neill Peter D. <1954-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations, tables
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Irish Americans - California - History - 19th century; Chinese Americans - California - History - 19th century; Irish Americans - Race identity - History - 19th century; Irish Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: California Race relations History 19th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Famine Irish and the American racial state
• ISBN: 1-315-39344-1; 1-315-39346-8; 1-315-39345-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163874503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in American history ; ; 6.