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| Foreword | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Colonial and Early National America | |
| Overview: The Irish and the Emerging City: Settlement to 1844 | 11 | |
| Ch. 1 | "Upon a bunch of straw": The Irish in Colonial New York City | 35 |
| Ch. 2 | Religion, Ethnicity, and History: Clues to the Cultural Construction of Law | 48 |
| Ch. 3 | The Development of an Irish American Community in New York City before the Great Migration | 70 |
| Pt. II | The Great Migration: 1844 to 1877 | |
| Overview: "The Most Irish City in the Union": The Era of the Great Migration, 1844-1877 | 87 | |
| Ch. 4 | "Desirable Companions and Lovers": Irish and African Americans in the Sixth Ward, 1830-1870 | 107 |
| Ch. 5 | Quimbo Appo's Fear of Fenians: Chinese-Irish-Anglo Relations in New York City | 125 |
| Ch. 6 | Illness and Medical Care among Irish Immigrants in Antebellum New York | 153 |
| Ch. 7 | Shrewd Irishmen: Irish Entrepreneurs and Artisans in New York's Clothing Industry, 1830-1880 | 169 |
| Ch. 8 | Union Green: The Irish Community and the Civil War | 193 |
| Pt. III | The Turn of the Century: 1877 to 1914 | |
| Overview: Forging Forward and Looking Back | 213 | |
| Ch. 9 | Going to the Ladies' Fair: Irish Catholics in New York City, 1870-1900 | 234 |
| Ch. 10 | The Irish Language in New York, 1850-1900 | 252 |
| Ch. 11 | Irish County Societies in New York, 1880-1914 | 275 |
| Ch. 12 | The Irish American Worker in Transition, 1877-1914: New York City as a Test Case | 301 |
| Ch. 13 | "In Time of Peace, Prepare for War": Key Themes in the Social Thought of New York's Irish Nationalists, 1890-1916 | 321 |
| Pt. IV | The Early Twentieth Century: 1914 to 1945 | |
| Overview: When New York Was Irish, and After | 337 | |
| Ch. 14 | Striking for Ireland on the New York Docks | 357 |
| Ch. 15 | Of "Mornin' Glories" and "Fine Old Oaks": John Purroy Mitchel, Al Smith, and Reform as an Expression of Irish American Aspiration | 374 |
| Ch. 16 | "From the East Side to the Seaside": Irish Americans on the Move in New York City | 395 |
| Pt. V | The Modern Era: 1945 to 1992 | |
| Overview: An End and a Beginning | 419 | |
| Ch. 17 | The Neighborhood Changed: The Irish of Washington Heights and Inwood since 1945 | 439 |
| Ch. 18 | Emigrants, Eirepreneurs, and Opportunists: A Social Profile of Recent Irish Immigration in New York City | 461 |
| Ch. 19 | Irish Traditional and Popular Music in New York City: Identity and Social Change, 1930-1975 | 481 |
| Ch. 20 | The Heart's Speech No Longer Stifled: New York Irish Writing since the 1960s | 508 |
| Conclusion | 533 | |
| Appendix 1 Statistical Tables | 551 | |
| Appendix 2 Maps | 565 | |
| Notes | 575 | |
| Select Bibliography | 703 | |
| Contributors | 709 | |
| Index | 715 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Aasss Assssa
reviewed The New York Irish on April 15, 2014
The New York Irish
This book partially resembles "And Still We Rise" because it gives an inside look at the different teaching styles found in poor urban areas, but I appreciated it more, because instead of Compton, its about Harlem, and its more current. I didn't altogether buy into the author's salesmanship of the Catholic school model, because as the book noted, the teachers suffer under this approach. Private school teachers are under-qualified or under-paid, and this leads to a high turnover, which is terrible for the teachers and the kids.
Things that struck me--
-residing in a single parent home could be considered almost a necessary precondition to long-term welfare dependence.
-Almost 72.5% of African American children are born out of wedlock, compared to 24% of white children."
(I'm glad I read "Promises I can keep" before this, so I have a higher understanding of why THIS is happening).
-the students have difficulty seeing the casual connections between effort and outcome
-half the country's murders are committed by African-Americans, mostly males 14-24 years old. (ONLY 1.2% of the nation's population!). THe New Orleans documentary "Murder through the Eyes of a Child" is exploring this.
-"Now I understand why some students act so immaturely in class. THey weren't able to have a normal childhood...but its safe here so it comes out."
Mary McLeod Bethune's Last Will and Testament: "I leave you love; I leave you hope; I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another; I leave you a thirst for education; I leave you a respect for the use of power; I leave you faith; I leave you racial dignity; I leave you a desire to live harmoniously with your fellow man; I leave you, finally, a responsibility for your young people." I love this quote!
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