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    Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

    I've said this before but I'll say it again. The simplistic "How the Irish became white" narrative is well past its sell-by date.

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      2. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        Irish people were legally "white" from the moment the racial category was deployed by colonists in the 17th century.

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      3. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        To paraphrase Eric Foner, being discriminated against did not make one non-white.

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      4. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        "No one had tried to prevent Irish immigrants from voting on the grounds that they were not white, hauled them into court for marrying..."

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      5. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        "...white persons, or claimed that the law prevented them from becoming naturalized citizens."

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      6. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        "The elevation of whiteness to an all-purpose explanation for political, social, and cultural behavior ignored the fact..."

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      7. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        "...that the “white” category contains within itself many kinds of inequality." http://www.ericfoner.com/reviews/092010harpers.html …

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      8. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        To successfully navigate these complex and entangled histories such sweeping (but enticing) narratives should be treated w/ extreme caution.

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      9. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        Playing with these categories also tends to erase Irish people of African descent. The only known "free born" Irish person who was sold into

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      10. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        perpetual hereditary chattel slavery in the Anglo-Caribbean was a man named in the State Papers as Mulatto Jack. He was kidnapped in Ireland

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      11. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

        in c. 1720 and sold into slavery in Antigua. This was only possible because of the colour of his skin. He was Irish but he wasn't "white".

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      12. Liam Hogan‏ @Limerick1914 25 Oct 2017

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        If you wish to explore what it meant to be designated non-white in Colonial America & the United States, see threadhttps://twitter.com/Limerick1914/status/706979527449296897 …

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        Currently reading the Slave Code of South Carolina (1740) pic.twitter.com/JGukmcOgrF
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