The Irish way
becoming American in the multi-ethnic city
by 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 entrenched Irish. While historians have long emphasized the role of settlement houses and other mainstream institutions in Americanizing immigrants, Barrett makes the original case that the culture absorbed by newcomers upon reaching American shores had a distinctly Hibernian cast. - Jacket flap.
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Irish, Cultural pluralism, Irish National characteristics, Emigration and immigration, City and town life, History, Irish national characteristics, Immigration and emigration, Irish, united states, National characteristics, irish, Ireland, emigration and immigration, United states, emigration and immigrationPlaces
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The Irish way: becoming American in the multi-ethnic city
2012, Penguin Press
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