TY - BOOK AU - Duffy,Jennifer Nugent ED - Project Muse. TI - Who's your Paddy?: racial expectations and the struggle for Irish American identity T2 - Nation of newcomers : immigrant history as American history SN - 9780814744130 AV - F128.9.I6 D84 2013 U1 - 305.8916/207307471 23 PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY / General KW - Irish Americans KW - New York (State) KW - Yonkers KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - African Americans KW - Relations with Irish Americans KW - Race identity KW - New York KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Who's Your Paddy? Irish Immigrant Generations in Greater New York -- From City of Hills to City of Vision: The History of Yonkers, New York -- Good Paddies and Bad Paddies: The Evolution of Irishness as a Race-Based Tradition in the United States -- Bar Wars: Irish Bar Politics in Neoliberal Ireland and Neoliberal Yonkers -- They're Just Like Us: Good Paddies and Everyday Irish Racial Expectations -- Bad Paddies Talk Back -- Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington: Race and Transnational Immigration Politics N2 - "After all the green beer has been poured and the ubiquitous shamrocks fade away, what does it mean to be Irish American besides St. Patrick's Day? Who's Your Paddy traces the evolution of "Irish" as a race-based identity in the U.S. from the 19th century to the present day. Exploring how the Irish have been and continue to be socialized around race, Jennifer Nugent Duffy argues that Irish identity must be understood within the context of generational tensions between different waves of Irish immigrants as well as the Irish community's interaction with other racial minorities. Using historic and ethnographic research, Duffy sifts through the many racial, class, and gendered dimensions of Irish-American identity by examining three distinct Irish cohorts in Greater New York: assimilated descendants of nineteenth-century immigrants; "white flighters" who immigrated to postwar America and fled places like the Bronx for white suburbs like Yonkers in the 1960s and 1970s; and the newer, largely undocumented migrants who began to arrive in the 1990s. What results is a portrait of Irishness as a dynamic, complex force in the history of American racial consciousness, pertinent not only to contemporary immigration debates but also to the larger questions of what it means to belong, what it means to be American. Jennifer Nugent Duffy is Associate Professor of History at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut. "-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814744130/ ER -