..., and calling for a decolonized narrative in Ireland. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2022 whiteness white supremacy Irishness Black Irish Travellers The Irish arrived in the United States at the bottom of the ladder...

... stating, “No Blacks, no dogs, no Irish.” My study of the experiences of white and non-white immigrants in this period aims to add to existing political analyses with a sociocultural exploration of migrants' adaptations to life in post-imperial Britain. By analyzing the Irish experience as well as those...

... history shifted or continued British ideals and policies related to gender and sexuality. How were Black Irish citizens, many of whom came to Ireland from British colonial possessions, affected by the gendered nationalist rhetoric in the interwar and later periods, and was there any (gendered) discourse...

... perceived them as “not-quite-white.” 14 Second, the widely documented history of Irish American violence against Black and Asian communities does not indicate an effort to escape minority status and enter white society. Rather, as Timothy Meagher argues, the Irish were in preservation mode, “fighting...

... for Herman Gray, Watching Race: Television and the Struggle "Blackness. " Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. $22.95 Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White. New York: Routledge, 1995. $16.95 (paper); $25.00 (cloth). Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural...

... J. The BBC’s “Irish Troubles”: Television, Conflict, and Northern Ireland . Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2017 . Taylor Keeanga-Yamahtta . From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation . Chicago : Haymarket , 2016 . Virdee Satnam . Racism, Class...

...’ positive reclaiming of the term black and the assertion of equality in the Black Power movement. We might also point to the uneven but long-standing tradition of presenting positive images of collective Irishness to counter and over- turn hegemonic representations running from Geoffrey Keating’s...

... treacherous." They frequently revolted and killed their English masters, and the English tried to outlaw the bringing in of Irish servants. Not only was the white servant class larger than the black in the English West Indies until the latter part of the seventeenth century, but Irish represented...

..., and appendix 3; and on Hill, see Kerby A. Miller, “ ‘Scotch-Irish,’ ‘Black Irish,’ and ‘Real Irish’: Emigrants and Identities in the Old South,” in The Irish Diaspora, ed. Andy Bielenberg (Harlow, UK: Longman, 2000), 139 – 57 (slightly revised and republished in Miller, Ireland and Irish...

... politically vital communities that helped maintain Curley in office. Organization on the basis of Irish ethnicity was fundamentally exclusionary, primarily at the expense of Boston’s growing black population. Blacks were barred from public jobs and housing and faced systematic violence...

... ILWU with that of its AFL rival for the loyalties of longshoremen, the ILA, which ruled the docks of New York as enclaves of Italian American and Irish American job monopolies and organized blacks and whites into separate “biracial” locals in many southern...

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... Black (16) 14% Blackface (10) 9% Irish (3) 2Y" Character (37) 32% City Life (4) 3% High Culture (4) 4...

... of the rationalization policies that are being implemented in terms of educational facilities . . . we are coming to a crisis point with regards the [language] revival.) 53 A Black Paper on Irish Education , written by a Gaelscoil activist and jointly published by the Celtic League and Craobh na dTeicneolaithe...

..., and transition pertaining to Ireland and the Irish when viewed in imperial and postimperial global contexts gives rise to critical questions addressed in the issue’s second section: “Race and Whiteness.” Ebun Joseph, who recently founded the first Black Studies module in Ireland at University College Dublin...

...- cally rendered a complex political situation simple and tended to paint an entire peo- ple as either the victims or the perpetrators of the violence. By contrast, the images in the series “The Irish Republicans” are black-and-white photographic portraits of the people involved in the Republican...

... to the complex realities of twenty-first-century Irish life and had thus been overtaken by more versatile forms of critique. Just as this truism was finding sanction, the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 and the storm of Black Lives Matter protests that ran in tandem with campaigns...

...Donal Ó Drisceoil In his victory speech at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, having won the prestigious Palme d'Or award for best film for the Irish war of independence drama, The Wind That Shakes the Barley , director Ken Loach declared: “Our film is a little step in the British confronting...

... community of Irish, English, African, and Chinese Americans. Thrown together by their poverty, these ethnic groups lived, danced, and died together. “A jig doing a jig,” marvels Bill on seeing a black man tap dancing on broken glass. Bill’s racism is some- times...

... and concluded that in many ways it was analogous to that of Black Britons, while also acknowledging, in the words of Walter, that “Irish are represented by dominant Western groups simultaneously as ‘other,’ that is racialised as essentially different in stereotypical ways, and also the ‘same’ because ‘white...