Irish America

di Byron (Autore)

Oxford University Press, 1999

Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created.

• Autore: Byron
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 328 p.
• Dimensioni: 217 x 138 mm
• Peso: 391 gr.
• EAN: 9780198233558

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