Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers Contributor(s): Onkey, Lauren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415801893 ISBN-13: 9780415801898 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2009 Annotation: Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans. Onkey examines how Irish and Irish-American identity is often constructed through or against African-Americans, mapping this through the work of writers, playwrights, political activists, and musicians. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Ireland - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
Dewey: 305.891 |
LCCN: 2009030962 |
Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 234 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Ireland |
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Publisher Description: Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a black identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle, James Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, John Boyle O'Reilly, and Jimmy Breslin; playwright Ned Harrigan; political activists Bernadette Devlin and Tom Hayden; and musicians Van Morrison, U2, and Black 47. |