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Winner of the 2020 Sarah A. Whaley Book Prize from the National Women's Studies Association Putting Their Hands on Race offers an important labor history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this intersectional study explores how these women were significant to the racial labor and citizenship politics of their time. Their migrations to northeastern cities challenged racial hierarchies and formations. Southern Black migrant women resisted the gendered racism of domestic service, and Irish immigrant women strove to expand whiteness to position themselves as deserving of labor rights. On the racially fractious terrain of labor, Black women and Irish immigrant women, including Victoria Earle Matthews, the “Irish Rambler”, Leonora Barry, and Anna Julia Cooper, gathered data, wrote letters and speeches, marched, protested, engaged in private acts of resistance in the workplace, and created women’s institutions and organizations to assert domestic workers’ right to living wages and protection.

Women household employees --- History --- 1850-1940. --- Anna Julia Cooper. --- Irish immigrant women. --- Irish immigrants. --- Irish. --- Leonara Barry. --- Race. --- Southern black domestic workers. --- United States. --- Victoria Earle Matthews. --- acts of resistance. --- citizenship politics. --- domestic workers. --- gendered racism. --- immigrants. --- intersectionality. --- labor history. --- labor rights. --- nineteenth century. --- racial hierarchies. --- racial labor. --- southern African Americans. --- the “Irish Rambler”. --- twentieth century. --- whiteness. --- women and work.

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Unprecedented in its scope, Rainbow's End provides a bold new analysis of the emergence, growth, and decline of six classic Irish-American political machines in New York, Jersey City, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh and Albany. Combining the approaches of political economy and historical sociology, Erie examines a wide range of issues, including the relationship between city and state politics, the manner in which machines shaped ethnic and working-class politics, and the reasons why centralized party organizations failed to emerge in Boston and Philadelphia despite their large Irish populations. The book ends with a thorough discussion of the significance of machine politics for today's urban minorities.

Metropolitan government --- Municipal government --- Politics, Practical --- Irish Americans --- Consolidation of local governments --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan areas --- Municipal corporations --- Ethnology --- Irish --- Electoral politics --- Mass political behavior --- Political behavior --- Politics --- Practical politics --- Political science --- Political participation --- History. --- Politics and government. --- History --- albany. --- bossism. --- boston. --- catholic culture. --- centralized party. --- chicago. --- citizenship. --- city politics. --- democracy. --- ethnic loyalties. --- ethnicity. --- history. --- irish american. --- irish cities. --- irish culture. --- irish immigrants. --- irish populations. --- jersey city. --- labor. --- machine politics. --- minorities. --- minority politics. --- new york. --- nonfiction. --- philadelphia. --- pittsburgh. --- political corruption. --- political economy. --- political machine. --- politics. --- san francisco. --- sociology. --- state politics. --- united states. --- urban minorities. --- urban. --- working class.

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This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants. Most of the book focuses on how the Irish created their own identity--in the context of slavery and abolition, empire, and revolution. Since the Irish were a dispersed people, this process unfolded not only in Ireland, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and other countries. Many nationalists were determined to repudiate anything that could interfere with the goal of building a united movement aimed at achieving full independence for Ireland. But others, including men and women who are at the heart of this study, believed that the Irish struggle must create a more inclusive sense of Irish nationhood and stand for freedom everywhere. Nelson pays close attention to this argument within Irish nationalism, and to the ways it resonated with nationalists worldwide, from India to the Caribbean.

Race --- Irish --- National characteristics, Irish. --- Physical anthropology --- Irishmen (Irish people) --- Ethnology --- Irish national characteristics --- History. --- Ethnic identity. --- Ireland --- African Americans. --- Afro-Caribbeans. --- Anglo-Irish Treaty. --- Boer. --- Boers. --- British Empire. --- British foreign policy. --- Catholic Irish. --- Daniel O'Connell. --- Darwin. --- Eamon de Valera. --- England. --- English. --- Erskine Childers. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Ireland. --- Irish Catholics. --- Irish Parliamentary Party. --- Irish Patriotic Strike. --- Irish Progressive League. --- Irish Republican Brotherhood. --- Irish Revolution. --- Irish identity. --- Irish immigrants. --- Irish nationalism. --- Irish nationalists. --- Irish nationhood. --- Irish race. --- Jan Christian Smuts. --- Michael Davitt. --- Protestant Ascendancy. --- Sinn Fin. --- abolition. --- abolitionists. --- activists. --- anti-Semitism. --- antislavery. --- black nationalism. --- dispossession. --- evolution. --- intellectuals. --- land. --- nationalist movement. --- nationality. --- oppression. --- race. --- racial discourse. --- racial identity. --- racialization. --- republican movement. --- slavery. --- slaves. --- socialism. --- war correspondent.