Racism in the Irish experience / Steve Garner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garner, Steve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--Ireland.

Race relations.

Racism.

Ireland--Race relations.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

viii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2004.

Summary:

Ireland's unique position as the only state in the European Union to have been colonised, coupled with the ambivalent experiences of Irish people within the British Empire, means that issues of 'race' in Ireland are overlaid by complex social and historical forces. This book is a unique analysis of the racialisation of Irish identities. The author examines key phases in the historical development of an Irish 'racial' consciousness, including 16th century colonisation and 19th century immigration to America and Great Britain. He then examines the legacy of this relationship, both in terms of the new migration into Ireland and relations with indigenous minorities -- travellers and Irish Jews. Garner explores the problematic links between nationalist ideologies and racism. He assesses the economic, social and political factors framing the experience of minorities in contemporary Ireland, and places these in a broader European context.

Contents:

1 Sociological Frameworks for Understanding Racism 4

2 Money, Migrations and Attitudes 35

3 Racing the Irish in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 69

4 The 'Filthy Aristocracy of Skin': Becoming White in the USA 91

5 In the Belly of the Beast: Nineteenth-Century Britain, Empire and the Role of 'Race' in Home Rule 114

6 Other People's Diasporas: The 'Racialisation' of the Asylum Issue 140

7 'New Racism', Old Racisms and the Role of Migratory Experience 168

8 'Remember Blanqui?': Nation State, Community and Some Paradoxes of Irish Anti-Racism 198

9 Beyond the New Socio-Economic 'Pale': Racialisation and belonging in Contemporary Ireland 225

Appendix 1 Surveys on Attitudes Towards Minorities and Minorities' Experiences of Racism-Discrimination in the Republic of Ireland, 1972-2001 256

Appendix 2 Address from the People of Ireland to their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America, 1842 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-297) and index.

ISBN:

0745319971

0745319963

OCLC:

52948923