Irish Travellers : : Racism and the Politics of Culture / / Jane Helleiner.

The Travelling People constitute a Gypsy-like minority population in Ireland that has been a long-standing target of racism and assimilative state settlement policies. Using archival and ethnographic research, Jane Helleiner's study documents longstanding anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and ex...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2001
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Origins, Histories, and Anti-Traveller Racism
  • 2. 'Menace to the Social Order': Anti-Traveller Racism, 1922-59
  • 3. The Politics and Practice of Traveller Settlement Policy
  • 4. Travelling, Racism, and the Politics of Culture
  • 5. Work, Class, and the Politics of Culture
  • 6. Gender, Racism, and the Politics of Culture
  • 7. Childhood and Youth, Racism, and the Politics of Culture
  • 8. Epilogue: Racism and the Politics of Culture into the 1990s
  • Notes
  • Reference
  • Index