Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Books
John Wiley & Sons White Awareness Handbook for AntiRacism Training
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University of Oklahoma Press Violence and Crime in Latin America
Book SynopsisAccording to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. The authors of this volume contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviours, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Trade ReviewThis book is a must-read for understanding crime and violence in Latin America. It challenges views of Latin American violence that either focus too much on regional particularities or univocally stress the role of the state as the overpowering site of violence and repression. Rather than denying these dimensions, the book recalibrates their significance by placing them in a larger, South-South geopolitical context. It will become a mandatory reference for studies of violence in Latin America and beyond."" - Federico Finchelstein, author of Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919 - 1945
£22.46
University of Oklahoma Press Homeland Ethnic Mexican Belonging since 1900
Book SynopsisIdeas defer to no border - least of all the idea of belonging. So where does one belong, and what does belonging even mean, when a border inscribes one's identity? This dilemma, so critical to the ethnic Mexican community, is at the heart of Homeland, an intellectual, cultural, and literary history of belonging in ethnic Mexican thought.
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John Wiley & Sons Strike Fear in the Land
Book SynopsisReexamines the Spanish conquest of Guatemala to give us a greater appreciation of indigenous involvement in it, and sustained opposition to it. The authors develop a fresh perspective on Pedro de Alvarado as well as the alliances forged with native groups that facilitated Spanish objectives.
£999.99
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo Life in Spanish
Book SynopsisMariano Guadalupe Vallejo (1807-90) grew up in Spanish California, became a leading military and political figure in Mexican California, and participated in some of the founding events of US California. This volume illuminates Vallejo’s life and history and examines the broader experience of the nineteenth-century Californio community.
£34.16
John Wiley & Sons Race and the War on Poverty
Book SynopsisPresident Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs.
£18.00
John Wiley & Sons Going Back to TTown Volume 2
Book SynopsisTerritory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904-97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s.Trade Review“This perceptive book is an insightful account, appealing to the aficionado and scholar alike, of the career and musical journey of bandleader Ernie Fields.”—Todd Wright, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, Hayes School of Music, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina“In piecing together her father’s musical journey, Carmen Fields highlights an important untold story, but also paints a fuller picture of the strength that emanated from the much talked about Tulsa, Oklahoma, of twentieth-century America.”—Wil Haygood, author of Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
£20.66
John Wiley & Sons Raza Schools Volume 4
Book SynopsisIn 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so - against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation - is the story Jesus Jesse Esparza tells in Raza Schools.Trade ReviewA welcome contribution . . . The author displays masterful skill in telling the story of the people of San Felipe who over the course of almost a century unceasingly sought to ensure a quality education for their children." - Arnoldo De LeÓn, author of Tejano West Texas "Esparza’s detailed focus on Del Rio provides a critical nexus on school segregation and the integration of Latinos, whites, and Blacks, using a wide array of sources, especially local voices gleaned through oral history. An excellent and timely focus on today’s controversial topics—diversity, inclusion, and equity—situated in an unexpected borderlands place during both the Mexican American and Chicano movements." - Cynthia Orozco, author of No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
£999.99
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Conquest of Mexico 500 Years of Reinventions
Book SynopsisThe Spanish invasion of Mexico in 1519, which led to the end of the Aztec Empire, was one of the most influential events in the history of the modern Atlantic world. But equally consequential, as this volume makes clear, were the ways the Conquest was portrayed.Trade Review“There is no doubt that this collection deserves attention from scholars across disciplines, geographies, and period specializations. On its own, or as a companion to Restall’s When Montezuma Met CortÉs, the work adds to numerous conversations. It seems like we are at a new historiographical turn, and, in many ways, The Conquest of Mexico embodies the excitement of what comes next.”—
£22.46
Louisiana State University Press The Legacy of Andrew Jackson
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£15.26
Louisiana State University Press From Rebellion to Revolution
Book SynopsisIn one of his most important books, the renowned historian Eugene D. Genovese examines slave revolts in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil, placing them in the context of modern world history.
£999.99
LSU Press Desegregating the Altar The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests 18711960
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LSU Press Plain Folk and Gentry in a Slave Society White Liberty and Black Slavery in Augustas Hinterlands
Book SynopsisIn this study of the communities on both sides of the Savannah River in Georgia and South Carolina, J. William Harris explores two great ironies of American history, the South's commitment to a liberty supported by slavery and its attempt to maintain the status quo with a war that undermined southern society.
£18.95
Louisiana State University Press Nothing But Freedom
Book SynopsisExamines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under.
£16.10
LSU Press Conjure in African American Society
Book SynopsisTraces the origins and evolution of conjuring practices across the centuries. Though some may see the study of conjure as a perpetuation of old stereotypes that depict blacks as bound to superstition, the truth, Jeffrey Anderson reveals, is far more complex.
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LSU Press The Problem of Democracy in the Age of Slavery
Book SynopsisOffers a new interpretation of the Garrisonian abolitionists, stressing their deep ties to reformers and liberal thinkers in Great Britain and Europe. The group of American reformers known as “Garrisonians” included, at various times, some of the most significant and familiar figures in the history of the antebellum struggle over slavery.
£36.86
LSU Press The Scary MasonDixon Line African American Writers and the South Southern Literary Studies
Book SynopsisNew Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In The Scary Mason-Dixon Line, Trudier Harris explores why black writers have consistently both loved and hated the South.
£21.95
Louisiana State University Press North Carolinas Free People of Color 17151885
Book SynopsisExamines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as “negroes”, “mulattoes,” “mustees”, “Indians”, “mixed-bloods”, or simply “free people of color”. From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these non-enslaved residents.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Intersectional Tech Black Users in Digital Gaming
Book SynopsisExamines blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Kishonna Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical frames and limited narratives in video games.Trade ReviewIntersectional Tech is a groundbreaking contribution to the growing body of work on race and technology. Gray weaves together incisive structural critique with a nuanced handling of the daily life and experiences of Black gamers. We see how oppressive systems are stood up and circulated in gaming, yet also never lose sight of the continued ways people push back, create sustainable communities for themselves, and seek to dismantle these systems. This is a must read book.
£23.36
LSU Press Blessed Are the Peacemakers Martin Luther King Jr
Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely read modern literary classic. This volume offers a comprehensive history of King's “Letter” and examines its literary appeal.
£21.80
Louisiana State University Press Becoming American in Creole New Orleans 18961949
Book SynopsisMoves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles' encounters with Anglo-American modernism. The author tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans's voluntary associations and social sodalities, and its public and parochial schools.
£35.06
LSU Press Winthropos
Book SynopsisWhile the poems in Winthropos reach back into the Hellenic past for imagery and inspiration, they often reside in the American present of their conception, forging childhood memory and local custom into a work of meditative power and evocative beauty.
£17.05
Louisiana State University Press Navigating Liberty
Book SynopsisIn an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between the formerly enslaved and northern reformers, John Cimprich shows how the unusual circumstances of emancipation in wartime presented new opportunities and spawned social movements for change yet produced intractable challenges and limited results.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Mardi Gras Indians
Book SynopsisExplores how sacred and secular expressions of Carnival throughout the African diaspora came together in a gumbo-sized melting pot to birth one of the most unique traditions celebrating African culture, Indigenous peoples, and Black Americans.
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Louisiana State University Press Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic
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LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered
Book SynopsisHistorians have long considered the diary of William Johnson to be among the most significant sources on free African Americans living in the antebellum South. Timothy Buckner reexamines Johnson’s life using recent scholarship on Black masculinity as an essential lens, demonstrating a complexity to Johnson previously overlooked in academic studies.Trade ReviewTimothy R. Buckner skillfully examines William Johnson's life and experiences with this rich case study, serving to illuminate vital issues surrounding race, politics, and power in Natchez, Mississippi, and the Lower South. Buckner's emphasis on the multifaceted nature of Black manhood in and out of slavery, and on the structural forces that shaped actions and identities in the antebellum South, makes this a critical addition to the field." - David Stefan Doddington, author of Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South"Buckner's close inspection of the diary of William Johnson provides a nuanced picture of its author and his story. The book corrects interpretative mistakes made by scholars and situates this important primary document within a much-changed and updated historiography on antebellum free Black life, free Black slaveholding, Black and southern masculinity, as well as the prewar frontier and urban South." - Libra R. Hilde, author of Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century
£35.06
LSU Press Glance
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Louisiana State University Press We Just Keep Running the Line
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John Wiley & Sons Transformative Ethnic Studies in Schools
Book SynopsisThis compelling book conceptualizes Ethnic Studies not only as a vehicle to transform and revitalize the school curriculum but also as a way to reinvent teaching. Drawing on Sleeter's research review on the impact of Ethnic Studies, the authors show how the traditional curriculum's Eurocentric view of the world affects diverse student populations.Table of Contents Contents Series Foreword James A. Banks vii Acknowledgments xiii 1. What Is All This Fuss About Ethnic Studies? 1 A Story of Schooling and the Legacies of Colonialism 1 Ethnic Studies as a Decolonizing, Unfinished Project 4 Epistemic Privilege: Propelling the Movement Forward 5 Ethnic Studies in Our Schools 6 Hallmarks of Ethnic Studies 7 Overview of This Book 17 Joining the Struggle for Ethnic Studies 17 2. Mainstream Curriculum as (Multicultural) White Studies 23 Whose Viewpoint Structures Curriculum? A Contested Domain 24 What Do Current Curriculum Analyses Find? 27 Assumptions Embedded Within (Multicultural) White Studies 36 Students’ Perspectives 38 Conclusion 43 3. What the Research Says About Ethnic Studies 44 Academic and Personal Impact on Students of Color 45 Ethnic Studies for Diverse Groups That Include White Students 62 Conclusion 67 4. Ethnic Studies Curriculum as Counter-Narrative 69 Ethnic Studies as a Conceptual Approach 69 Ethnic Studies in Early Childhood 72 Black Studies in High School 76 Native American Studies 79 Ethnic Studies with Diverse Students 84 Youth Participatory Action Research and Ethnic Studies 90 Conclusion 93 5. Ethnic Studies Teachers’ Reflections on Their Praxis 95 Ethnic Studies Teachers 96 Identity as Central to Teaching 97 Foundational Values 99 Key Challenges 107 Conclusion 112 6. Research and the Movement for Ethnic Studies 113 Uses of Research in the Growing Movement for Ethnic Studies 114 Ethnic Studies Advocates 115 The Role of Research in Ethnic Studies Advocacy 116 Challenges 123 Sustainable Research and Advocacy 128 Looking Toward the Future 130 References 134 Index 149 About the Authors 162
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John Wiley & Sons Black Immigrant Literacies
Book SynopsisLearn how to centre, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This book presents a framework to revolutionize teaching in ways that draw on students’ assets for redesigning, rethinking, and reimagining literacy and the English Language Arts curriculum.Table of ContentsContents (Tentative)Foreword Dr. Shondel NeroAcknowledgments and Dedication1. INTRODUCTION The Framework for Black Immigrant LiteraciesAuthentic NarrativesA Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and PolicymakersEnvisioning Imaginary Futures with Black Immigrant LiteraciesOverview of the Chapters2. RE-ENVISIONING THE LITERACIES OF BLACK IMMIGRANT YOUTH A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United StatesIntersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a "New Model Minority"Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective ReviewPeer interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience(Re)envisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant YouthSummaryQuestions to Consider3. THE FRAMEWORK FOR BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies FrameworkIntersectional Lenses Undergirding "Black Immigrant Literacies"Applying the "Black Immigrant Literacies" FrameworkQuestions to Consider4. TEACHING CHLOE, A BLACK JAMAICAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: ENTANGLEMENTS OF ENGLISHES, RACE, AND MIGRATION Chloe's Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: 'You'll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken'Questions to Consider5. TEACHING ERVIN, A BLACK BAHAMIAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: FOSTERING PEER INTERACTIONS Ervin's Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: "Talking Like I'm Ghetto"Insights From Ervin's Authentic Narrative"Black Enough" as a Way to BelongQuestions to Consider6. BRIDGING INVISIBLE BARRIERS WITH BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES: BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMONG SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES ParentsSchools and TeachersCommunitySummaryAPPENDIXREFERENCESAbout the Author
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Within the Plantation Household Black and White
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Rising Wind Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs 19351960
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Beyond Slavery Explorations of Race Labor and
Book SynopsisThis study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Creating an Old South Middle Floridas Plantation Frontier before the Civil War
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Left of the Color Line Race Radicalism and TwentiethCentury Literature of the United States
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina A Stone of Hope Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
Book SynopsisThe civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in US history. In this assessment, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress, but of the power of religious tradition.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Freedoms Coming Religious Culture and the
Book SynopsisOffering an analysis of religion in the post - Civil War and twentieth-century South, this title puts race and culture at the center, describing southern Protestant cultures as both priestly and prophetic: as southern formal theology sanctified dominant political and social hierarchies, evangelical belief and practice subtly undermined them.Trade Review"A wonderful book, useful for classes, well written and thoroughly researched. In properly bringing many unstudied and poorly studied characters to the forefront of southern history, it thinks wisely and widely about the places of religion in southern life." - Church History"
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Origins of Proslavery Christianity White and
Book SynopsisArgues that white evangelicals' ideas about slavery grew directly out of their interactions with black evangelicals. This book draws from church records and slave narratives to illuminate the relationship between whites and blacks within the evangelical fold. It argues that black evangelicals inadvertently shaped the proslavery argument.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Slavery and Public History The Tough Stuff of American Memory
Book SynopsisHow do Americans reckon with slavery? This book offers an analysis of how people remember their past and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Many Minds One Heart SNCCs Dream for a New
Book SynopsisBetween 1960 and 1965, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created some of the civil rights movement's boldest experiments in freedom. This book explores how the organization fostered so much social change in such a short time.Trade Review"Does a fine job of analyzing how SNCC combated racism in some of the worst parts of the nation and, for a brief moment at least, allowed sharecroppers, students, and other ordinary folk - both black and white - to believe that a deeper, richer, more democratic culture was possible in America." - Washington Post"
£999.99
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Forging Diaspora AfroCubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Over Black American Attitudes toward the
Book SynopsisThe author has put simple solutions and flashy theories aside and brought to his task a patience, skepticism, thoroughness, and humility commensurate with the vast undertaking. He combines these qualities with imagination and insight. The result is a massive and learned work that stands as the most informed and impressive pronouncement on the subject yet made."" New York Times Book Review
£35.21
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina If We Could Change the World Young People and
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Princess Noire The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Knock at the Door of Opportunity Black Migration
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Fashioning Lives
Book SynopsisExamines the literacy practices of Black LGBTQ people, developing - from sixty in-depth interviews conducted with individuals of various ages living across the United States - an analytical theory of “black queer literacies”.
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Southern Illinois University Press Organizing Freedom Black Emancipation Activism
Book SynopsisOffers a riveting and significant social history of black emancipation activism in Indiana and Illinois during the Civil War era. By enlarging the definition of emancipation to include black activism, Jennifer Harbour details the aggressive, tenacious defiance through which Midwestern African Americans made freedom tangible for themselves.Trade Review“Jennifer R. Harbour deftly teases out everyday acts of bravery in the black communities of Illinois and Indiana in their pursuit of emancipation as a conscious, concerted, collective, and ongoing action. With vivid examples she reveals men, women, and children not only surviving in a threatening environment but also defining the terms of freedom as something greater than the absence of slavery. This is an important contribution to Underground Railroad, abolitionist, and Civil War studies.”—Leigh Fought, author of Women in the World of Frederick Douglass “Harbour skillfully presents the struggle for emancipation in a new light, one that illuminates the activism of black men and women and their extraordinary effort to carve out communities and civic organizations in the midst of white supremacy.”—Stephen I. Rockenbach, author of War upon Our Border: Two Ohio Valley Communities Navigate the Civil War “This pathbreaking study achieves several important goals by broadening our definition of ‘emancipation,’ redirecting our gaze westward, forcing us to consider the important role of women, and describing in detail the crucial role of black organizational activity in the antebellum Midwest.”—Beverly C. Tomek, author of Pennsylvania Hall: A “Legal Lynching” in the Shadow of the Liberty Bell
£20.66
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni The Irish in Illinois
Book SynopsisToday over a million people in Illinois claim Irish ancestry and celebrate their love for Ireland. This concise narrative history brings together both familiar and unheralded stories of the Irish in Illinois, highlighting the critical roles these immigrants and their descendants played in the settlement and the making of the Prairie State.Trade ReviewA concise and comprehensive history of the Irish in a state where they have had an enormous impact. The richly illustrated engaging narrative is accompanied by a range of vignettes that help the story come alive. This is an absorbing book for the lay reader, as well as a useful text for students of Illinois history." —James R. Barrett, author of The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multiethnic City"Mathieu W. Billings and Sean Farrell have done a magnificent job of combining primary research with a wealth of secondary material to produce an erudite and absorbing portrait of the Irish in Illinois from the mid-eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. The Irish in Illinois is a comprehensive and engaging book that should be read by everyone with an interest in Irish America, Illinois, or Chicago." —Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder That Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago"This is an engaging account of the Irish and Illinois history. While Chicago predominates, Billings and Farrell have crafted a compelling story of the Irish role in shaping the region since European exploration and settlement of the state." —Eileen M. McMahon, author of What Parish Are You From? A Chicago Irish Parish Community and Race Relations, 1916–1970"This is a concise but very smart and rich history of the Irish in Illinois. It is particularly insightful in its treatment of the Illinois Irish in the early nineteenth century as well as their experiences downstate throughout the two or more centuries of their settlement in the state. It makes a fresh and critically important contribution not just to the history of Illinois or to the story of the Irish there but to our understanding of the broader history of the Irish in America." —Timothy Meagher, author of Inventing Irish America"This well-researched and well-written book highlights the richness and the diversity of Irish immigrants and Irish American life in Illinois from the colonial era to the present. Billings and Farrell have provided a comprehensive analysis of the large Irish American community in Chicago but also have shown us the significance of the Irish outside the Windy City. It will be a role model for other state studies of the Irish in America." —David T. Gleeson, author of The Irish in the South, 1815–1877Table of Contents List Of Maps And Illustrations List Of Biographical And Issue Entries Introduction 1. From Imperial Soldiers To Prairie Patriots: The Irish In The Illinois Country, 1750-1818 2. From Irish Exiles To Paddy Politicians, 1818-1865 3. At The Forefront Of The Multi-Ethnic City: The Irish In Chicago, 1865-1933 4. Beyond The South Side: The Irish Of Downstate Illinois, 1865-1960 5. A South Side Empire? Irish Chicago, 1933-1983 Conclusion: Irish Identities In Contemporary Illinois For Further Reading Bibliography
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