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Print friendly Tell a friend Find subscription deals Depictions of the Irish in Frank Webb's The Garies and Their Friends and Frances E. W. Harper's Trial and Triumph - authors - Critical Essay
MELUS Spring, 2001 by Anna Engle
This similarity posed a dilemma for other Euro-Americans who, throughout the nineteenth century, were attempting in literature and popular culture to highlight racial differences and smooth over class divisions.(1) Instead of recognizing the class similarities between Irish and African Americans, many Euro-Americans painted Irish-Americans black, attributing their low class status to their alleged physical or even racial difference from other Euro-Americans. In contrast, African American writers such as Frank Webb and Frances E. W. Harper argue against such conflations of race and class. In Webb's novel The Garies and Their Friends (1857) and Harper's novel Trial and Triumph (1888-9), these writers use Irish-American characters to demonstrate that categories of blackness and whiteness are not separate from but intricately entwined with class categories. Next
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