The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City

ISBN-13: 9780143122807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 384 str.

James R. Barrett

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In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This process of 'Americanization from the bottom up' was deeply shaped, Barrett argues, by the Irish. From Lower Manhattan to the South Side of Chicago to Boston's North End, newer waves of immigrants and African Americans found it nearly impossible to avoid the Irish. While historians have emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed bynewcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast.