The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy Across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century
By Patrick R. O'Malley
Published by University of Virginia Press, January 2023.
ISBN: 978-0-8139-5057-0
Published by University of Virginia Press, January 2023.
ISBN: 978-0-8139-5057-0
Abstract
Analyses the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States, focusing on the years immediately preceding the American Civil War.