UPC: 9780192859730 | Race Politics and Irish America: A Gothic History (Hardcover)

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Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna as well as literature film caricature and beauty discourse convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean on America s frontiers and antebellum plantations and along its eastern seaboard. This cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas examines the forcibly transported Irish the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots and post-1845 Famine immigrants. Their racial transformations are indicated by the designations they acquired in the Americas: Redlegs Scots-Irish and black Irish. In literature by Fitzgerald O Neill Mitchell Glasgow and Yerby (an African-American author of Scots-Irish heritage) the Irish are both colluders and victims within America s racial structure. Depictions range from Irish encounters with Native and African Americans to competition within America s immigrant hierarchy between Saxon Scots-Irish and Celtic Irish Catholic. Irish-connected presidents feature but attention to queer and multiracial authors public women beauty professionals and performers complicates the Irish whitening narrative. Thus Irish Princess Grace Kelly s globally-broadcast ascent to royalty paves the way for America s royals the Kennedys. The presidencies of the Scots-Irish Jackson and Catholic-Irish Kennedy signalled their respective cohorts assimilation. Since Gothic literature particularly expresses the complicity that attaining power ( whiteness ) entails subgenres named Scots-Irish Gothic and Kennedy Gothic are identified: in Gothic by Brown Poe James Faulkner and Welty the violence of the colonial Irish motherland is visited upon marginalized Americans including sometimes other Irish groupings. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America s contexts of ra