Irish Whiteness and the Nineteenth-Century Construction of Race

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Much Victorian Irish studies has followed the Americanist Noel Ignatiev's famous claim that “became white” upon migration to United States, whereas they had not been in context of Kingdom. This article argues, contrast, an emphasis on undeniable racialization poverty and politics can distract us from important truth: nineteenth-century people, Britain Ireland as well were broadly understood white, “Celticness” was any serious or widespread way treated equivalent Blackness, although did stop some advocates drawing misleading analogy. Drawing cultural anthropological work mid-nineteenth century, Robert Knox, Thomas Carlyle, John Mitchel Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, caricaturists Punch Frederick Douglass, this proposes implication Irishness cognate Blackness—or experience a version Black experience—represents epistemological ethical error Frank B. Wilderson III called “the ruse analogy” we must interrogate more critically lest we, Wilderson's formulation, enact “mystification, often erasure, Blackness's grammar suffering.”

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عنوان ژورنال: Victorian Literature and Culture

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1060-1503', '1470-1553']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150322000067