St. Patrick's Day Parades and Irish Identity
by Meg Mulrooney
A central theme in GAMST200: Intro to American Studies is how different groups come together as Americans. In this PowerPoint presentation, Mulrooney uses the Irish, who encountered virulent forms of ethnic, religious, and even racial prejudice, to explore how immigrants acculturate to life in this country and craft positive public identities as hyphenated ethnic-Americans.
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