{"product_id":"blackness-and-transatlantic-irish-identity-lauren-onkey-9780415801898","title":"Blackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity: Celtic Soul Brothers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlackness and Transatlantic Irish Identity\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the long history of imagined and real relationships between the Irish and African-Americans since the mid-nineteenth century in popular culture and literature. Irish writers and political activists have often claimed - and thereby created - a \"black\" identity to explain their experience with colonialism in Ireland and revere African-Americans as a source of spiritual and sexual vitality. Irish-Americans often resisted this identification so as to make a place for themselves in the U.S. However, their representation of an Irish-American identity pivots on a distinction between Irish-Americans and African-Americans. Lauren Onkey argues that one of the most consistent tropes in the assertion of Irish and Irish-American identity is constructed through or against African-Americans, and she maps that trope in the work of writers Roddy Doyle, James Farrell, Bernard MacLaverty, John Boyle O'Reilly, and Jimmy Breslin; playwright Ned Harrigan; political activists Bernadette Devlin and Tom Hayden; and musicians Van Morrison, U2, and Black 47.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lauren Onkey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415801893\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415801898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Lauren Onkey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136116732159,"sku":"9780415801898","price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d01d3971-01ac-4c65-ab01-38778b397ab2.jpg?v=1770160621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blackness-and-transatlantic-irish-identity-lauren-onkey-9780415801898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}