Synopses & Reviews
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.
About the Author
Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
Research Professor of Anthropology, Union College, Schenectady, New York
Table of Contents
1. Prologue
2. Colonists and Immigrants
3. As Irish as any City in America
4. The Past in the Present
5. Over the Generations
6. Irish-Catholic-Democrat
7. The Importance of being Irish
8. The Wearing of the Green
9. A Socioscape of Irish America
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