Kings by A Graeme Auld

Kings by A Graeme Auld

Accounts of Irish racialization in the United States have tended to stress Irish difference. Famine Irish and the American Racial State takes a different stance. This interdisciplinary, transnational work uses an array of cultural artifacts, including novels, plays, songs, cartoons, government reports, laws, sermons, memoirs, and how-to manuals, to make its case. It challenges the claim that the Irish became white in the United States, showing that the claim fails to take into full account the legal position of the Irish in the nineteenth-century US state - a state that deemed the Irish white upon arrival. The Irish thus not only fitted into the US racial state; they helped to form it. Till now, little heed has been paid to the state's role in the Americanization of the Irish or to the Irish role in the development of US state institutions. Distinguishing American citizenship from American nationality, this volume journeys to California to analyze the means by which the Irish gained acceptance in both categories, at the expense of the Chinese. Along the way, it contests ideas that have taken hold within American studies. One is the notion that the Roman Catholic Church operated outside of the power structure of the nineteenth-century United States. On the contrary, Famine Irish and the American Racial State argues, the Irish-led corporate Catholic Church became deeply imbricated in US state structures. Its final chapter discusses a radical, transnational, Irish tradition that offers a glimpse at a postnational future.

Dr. Timothy Lim is Reader in Hebrew and Old Testament Studies, University of Edinburgh. A. Graeme Auld is Professor of Hebrew Bible, University of Edinburgh. Larry W. Hurtado is Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh. Alison Jack gained her Ph.D. at New College, Edinburgh and is a minister of the Church of Scotland.

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ISBN 13	9780715205235
ISBN 10	0715205234
Title	Kings
Author	A Graeme Auld
Series	Daily Study Bible
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Saint Andrew Press
Year published	1986-10-16
Number of pages	268
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