IRELAND AND ‘WHITENESS’ SINCE INDEPENDENCE

By Van Gosse As an American historian, I am investigating Irish understandings of the United States’ system of white supremacy and race in general. My perspective is different from that of Irish scholars. ‘Racism’ in Ireland encompasses what Americans call ‘nativism’, as in fear of immigrants. In the US it developed via a black/white binary ... Read more

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