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There was never a point in American history where the Irish were not considered white. It's just that racism is amazingly not limited to whites vs non-whites.
by TheBigSalad 2mo ago
There was never a point in American history where the Irish were not considered white. It's just that racism is amazingly not limited to whites vs non-whites.
- jahnu 2mo agoIndeed! [0] Also pervasive is this idea that Irish were also enslaved in the Americas when they were not. Indentured servitude yes but enslavement, no. [1] [0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/irish-whiteness-and-the-nineteenthcentury-construction-of-race/C54C22CEC172CF668A45E90E614B056E https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_slaves_myth