\'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called \'path breaking, \' \'seminal, \' \'essential, \' a \'must read.\' How the Irish Became White is such a study.\' John Bracey, W.
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In the new country.
Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. \'...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called \'path breaking, \' \'seminal, \' \'essential, \' a \'must read.\' How the Irish Became White is such a study.\' John Bracey, W.
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