Whiteness and Diasporic Irishness: Nation, Gender and Class.
Whiteness is often detached from the notion of diaspora in the recent flurry of interest in the phenomenon, yet it is a key feature of some of the largest and oldest displacements. This paper explores the specific contexts of white racial belonging and status over two centuries in two main destinati...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 37; no. 9; pp. 1295 - 1313 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Nov2011
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=67042836&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 67042836 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1369183X 56F jtl: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies issn: 1369183X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2011 vid: 37 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 67042836 10.1080/1369183X.2011.623584 ppf: 1295 ppct: 18 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 210KB tig: atl: Whiteness and Diasporic Irishness: Nation, Gender and Class. aug: au: Walter, Bronwen affil: Irish Diaspora Studies, Anglia Ruskin University su: Racial identity of white people Irish people Diaspora Poor white people National character Racialization Working class Class differences Underclass Ethnicity England United States sug: subj: England United States Racial identity of white people Irish people Diaspora Poor white people National character Racialization Working class Class differences Underclass Ethnicity keyword: ‘Poor White’ 'Poor White' Irish National Identity Whiteness ab: Whiteness is often detached from the notion of diaspora in the recent flurry of interest in the phenomenon, yet it is a key feature of some of the largest and oldest displacements. This paper explores the specific contexts of white racial belonging and status over two centuries in two main destinations of the Irish diaspora, the USA and Britain. Its major contribution is a tracing of the untold story of ‘How the Irish became white in Britain’ to parallel and contrast with the much more fully developed narrative in the USA. It argues that, contrary to popular belief, the racialisation of the Irish in England did not fade away at the end of the nineteenth century but became transmuted in new forms which have continued to place the ‘white’ Irish outside the boundaries of the English nation. These have been strangely ignored by social scientists, who conflate Irishness and working-class identities in England without acknowledging the distinctive contribution of Irish backgrounds to constructions of class difference. Gender locates Irish women and men differently in relation to these class positions, for example allowing mothers to be blamed for the perpetuation of the underclass. Class and gender are also largely unrecognised dimensions of Irish ethnicity in the USA, where the presence of ‘poor white’ neighbourhoods continues to challenge the iconic story of Irish upward mobility. Irishness thus remains central to the construction of mainstream ‘white’ identities in both the USA and Britain into the twenty-first century. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies is the property of Taylor & Francis Ltd and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies holder: Taylor & Francis Ltd dt: @attributes: year: 2011 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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