{"id":562,"date":"2016-11-15T07:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/?p=562"},"modified":"2016-11-15T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:50:35","slug":"irish-blended-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/uncategorized\/irish-blended-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Blended Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m beginning to center my thinking about blackness in Ulysses in a manner that moves beyond solely examining the presence of American racism by looking more into what this racism means in an Irish context. While I\u2019m still very interested in the spread of an American brand of anti-black racism globally, there is much to be said about the way this racism functions in Ireland and within the context of <em>Ulysses. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Most of the source material for the instances where American racism functions in an Irish context occur in the Cyclops episode. Barbara Temple Thurston writes about an instance in Cyclops where There is an instance where Bloom insults the Citizen narrator with a phrase from a Kipling poem, calling him a \u201cwhiteeyed kaffir\u201d. Temple Thurston writes that this reference extends the extent of Irish discrimination to include South Africa, going beyond an American conception of racism and providing evidence that Irish people have their own racist expressions. With this in mind and after coming across this evidence, I think that I have a much better shot at moving away from my concerns about getting stuck analyzing American racism and using Ulysses as a source. I feel much more comfortable making a claim about the interaction of American racism in Ireland with Ireland\u2019s own racist conceptions, especially since the overlap of the two happens so prominently in Cyclops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m beginning to center my thinking about blackness in Ulysses in a manner that moves beyond solely examining the presence of American racism by looking more into what this racism means in an Irish context. While I\u2019m still very interested in the spread of an American brand of anti-black racism globally, there is much to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eriksimpson.sites.grinnell.edu\/Ulysses16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}