ebooks Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (America and the Long 19th Century) by Robin Bernstein in History

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The author documents his thesis that American urban history begins with the arrival of large numbers of Irish Catholic immigrants in the 1820s. He argues that Irish Americans' material success; which took them as a group from the ghetto to middle-class; has caused a fading of Irish identity.