The Irish moved from an oppressed Irish race to an oppressing American race

Evidence

This book looks at how one group of people became white. Put another way, it asks how the Catholic Irish, an oppressed race in Ireland, became part of an oppressing race in America. It is an attempt to reassess immigrant assimilation and the formation (or non-formation) of an American working class. — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Directly frames the ascent-into-protection case the reader is comparing against category-reclamation. — connects to: Pro-slavery sentiment moved from America back into Irish nationalism — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 126; American and Irish repudiation of O’Connell coincided with abandoning antislavery — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 124; Ireland’s Catholics were a colonially constructed racial caste before emigrating — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 130 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Irish-America’s choice on abolition marked its turn toward whiteness. #corroborates (0.92) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 40
• The Irish were the prototype white servants later absorbed into a white racial identity #expands (0.90)
• The Penal Laws made Irish Catholics an oppressed race in Ireland. #corroborates (0.88) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 127
• Irish immigrants learned anti-Black hatred upon landing in America, not at home #qualifies (0.85) — Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White, 6
• Irish assimilation dissolved the stereotype as economic and cultural distance closed #qualifies (0.84) — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 161
• Anti-Black racism bled back to Ireland even as Irish-Americans whitened. #complicates (0.82)