“The Irish had suffered profound injustice in the U.K. at the hands of the British, widely seen as ‘white negroes.’ Thepotato faminethat created starvation conditions that cost the lives of millions of Irish and forced the out-migration of millions of surviving ones, was less a natural ...
The Iroquois and Cherokee make an appearance, as do enslaved peoples of the Carolinas and the Chesapeake, Mongol raiders, French fur traders, Dutch merchants, Famine‐era Irish immigrants, and even the contemporary Yanomamo of Brazil. The many examples clearly illustrate the point about disease as...
Indies, Asia, Australia and Cyprus submitted letters of application for employment, stressing both their excellent qualifications and experience, and their migrant or ethnic status: ‘white’ immigrants were called for interview in 74 percent of cases, compared with 52 percent of Asians and West ...