Byron, Reginald
Irish America
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.
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Nyckelord: American Studies, Irish Studies, history, sociology, anthropology
- Författare
- Byron, Reginald
- Utgivare
- Oxford University Press
- Utgivningsår
- 1999
- Språk
- en
- Utgåva
- 1
- Sidantal
- 327 sidor
- Kategorier
- Geografi, Resehandböcker
- Samhälle
- Format
- E-bok
- eISBN (PDF)
- 0-19-823356-6