#HowTheIrishBecameWhite : #NoelIgnatiev, Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/howirishbecamewh0000igna
#HowTheIrishBecameWhite : #NoelIgnatiev, Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/howirishbecamewh0000igna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhtWmqWZ9dA
How the #Irish Became '#White' by #NoelIgnatiev
(I just heard of this #book. I look forward to reading it one day.)
Noel Ignatiev's book "How the Irish Became White" has everything to do with why #Irish people support the #Palestinians and Americans of Irish descent support #Israel.
Finally getting around to reading Ignatiev's "How the Irish Became White". Considering how big it (and he) loomed in the circles I came up in, it's hard to believe it took this long. I wonder how much holds up after almost 30 years?!
#HowTheIrishBecameWhite #Irish #Whiteness #Race #Racism #noelignatiev #racetraitor @bookstodon @histodons #History #USHistory
Book 21 of this year
Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World – Noel Ignatiev
Great piece by the recently deceased #NoelIgnatiev, (thanks to #DavidRoediger):
"I find Douglass’s electoral efforts uninteresting, just as I find uninteresting today’s debates over whether socialists should take part in elections... He was flailing, and knew it.
"But a strong case can be made for Douglass when we shift our ground from his electoral to his non-electoral activities: what did he do when not electioneering?"
In a lengthy review in the New Yorker of David W. Blights recent book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,1 Adam Gopnik calls Douglass the progenitor of the pragmatic-progressive strain in American thought that led to Martin Luther King and Barack Obama.2 Douglass is an attractive figure, and it is easy to understand why he fills the need of American mainstream thought for a Black political hero now that George Washington Carver (the one Black figure in the textbooks when I went to grade school) no longer serves. But the notion of pragmatic progressive suggests an alternative tradition, which we might call impractical revolutionary. Nat Turner, John Brown, and Malcolm X come to mind as exemplars.