Who's your Paddy?: racial expectations and the struggle for Irish American identity

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Acknowledgments Introduction: Who's Your Paddy? Irish Immigrant Generations in Greater New York 1. From City of Hills to City of Vision: The History of Yonkers, New York 2. Good Paddies and Bad Paddies: The Evolution of Irishness as a Race-Based Tradition in the United States 3. Bar Wars: Irish Bar Politics in Neoliberal Ireland and Neoliberal Yonkers 4. They're Just Like Us: Good Paddies and Everyday Irish Racial Expectations 5. Bad Paddies Talk Back 6. Paddy and Paddiette Go to Washington: Race and Transnational Immigration Politics Conclusion: To BelongNotes Index About the Author