Antebellun Irish immigration and emerging ideologies of "America" : a protestant backlash
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Antebellun Irish immigration and emerging ideologies of "America" : a protestant backlash
（Studies in American history, v. 41）
Edwin Mellen Press, c2002
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注記
Bibliography: p. 131-144
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This study argues that the confrontation between antebellum Irish immigrants and mainstream Americans helped reshape American ideology and, in particular, the American Dream myth. As Irish immigrants became a growing presence in the United States, American society reacted in what Dunn calls a "Protestant backlash": clerical and lay interests banded together and attempted to codify the very definition of "America" and thereby relegate Irish immigrants to society's margins. In an examination of self-help manuals, political pamphlets, religious tracts, newspaper editorials and instructional novels, this study contrasts the disparities between the actions of nativists and their rhetoric of reaffirming American identity. It also critiques current trends in multicultural studies and posits a strong case for studying marginalized groups from European backgrounds within the larger context of their interacitons with mainstream society.
目次
- American ideology and the American Dream
- justifying the "Bible in the Countring House" for mainstream Americans
- "The enemy is here and in our midst" - the Protestant backlash against Irish Catholic immigration
- resisting America's devilish temptations - "Willy Burke" and "The Cross and the Shamrock"
- the process of fitting into the "main cultural stream" - the Irish Catholic presence in Connecticut
- coda - Irish-American culture in a multicultural curriculum - no Irish need apply?
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