Reflections on race in contemporary Ireland

Steve Garner

Reflections on race in contemporary Ireland

Steve Garner^*

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Sociology and Policy

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Abstract

Any reflection on the category "race" in the contemporary world is inevitably framed by the cumulative layers of meanings and practices attached to bodies and cultures over the previous centuries. If the idea of race resembles anything, it is a palimpsest,¹with past interpretations leaking through to make the ink of the present run. Accordingly, I present some historical notes not as a distinct prelude to the "real" story, positing a rupture of past and present, but as the beginning of the story proper.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Race and Immigration in the new Ireland
Editors	Julieann Veronica Ulin, Heather Edwards, Sean O'Brien
Publisher	University of Notre Dame Press
Pages	175-204
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	978-0-268-07866-9
ISBN (Print)	978-0-268-02777-3
Publication status	Published - 2013

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