Irish America

Zusatztext It is a pleasure to welcome this book into the front ranks of Irish diaspora studies. Informationen zum Autor Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New YorkResearch Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York Klappentext Few writers have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five! six! or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study! based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry! aims to discover in what senses the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world. Zusammenfassung Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue Colonists and Immigrants As Irish as Any City in America The Past in the Present Over the Generations Irish-Catholic-Democrat The Importance of Being Irish The Wearing of the Green A Socioscape of Irish America Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Byron, Reginald Byron, Reginald (Professor of Sociology and Anthro Byron, Byron Reginald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.11.1999
• EAN: 9780198233558
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823355-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Oxford Studies in Social and C; Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, European History, 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Social groups, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Physical anthropology, Social groups, communities and identities