Interesting fusion of anti-Indigenous and anti-Irish sentiments in late 19th century magazine Wild Oates.pic.twitter.com/WcQMHmYv7d
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How is that particular literature falling out of fashion? Not being snarky, I'm genuinely curious because I'm a historian invested in the topic and feel like I missed something.
I felt like the shift was in conversation about Irish slavery in the Americas (which has become a right wing trope and did not exist), rather than about the overall racialized image of the Irish. But I am only an interested reader, so I may well have missed a lot.
Are there similar things happening with Italians?
Dunno if that stuff’s out of fashion at all tbh. Noel Ignatiev’s pretty widely read
anyway if you’re interested in the same stuff in the UK I recently came across this incredible map in John Beddoe’s The Races of Britain’ (1885)pic.twitter.com/6oWGR99KGj
Darwin in the Descent, quoting & apparently endorsing W R Gregpic.twitter.com/KB1mAVQJFq
The changing “racial” status of the Irish in Britain is less studied and I think more interesting, because the Irish were for a long time by far the largest ethnic minority group there and anti-Irish bigotry had the most domestic political salience for well over a century.
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