Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity Celtic Soul Brothers 1st Edition by Lauren Onkey ISBN 978-1135165666 1135165666

Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity Celtic Soul Brothers 1st Edition by Lauren Onkey – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery:  978-1135165666, 1135165666
Full download Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity Celtic Soul Brothers 1st Edition  after payment

Product details: 

ISBN 10:  1135165666

ISBN 13: 978-1135165666

Author: Lauren Onkey

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.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: “Aren’t We a Little White for That Kind of Thing?”

2. “A Representative Americanized Irishman”: John Boyle O’Reilly

3. Melees

4. Bernadette’s Legacy

5. Ray Charles on Hyndford Street: Van Morrison’s Caledonian Soul

6. Born Under a Bad Sign
   Conclusion: Micks for O’Bamagh

People also search for:

blackness and transatlantic irish identity celtic soul brothers
    
black tans irish
    
black and tans irish history
    
black and irish relations
    
a black irish