Week 8 – Race Against Time: Racial Discourse and Irish History – Luke Gibbons – Castle

It is surprising to witness that the Irish native people were described as white chimpanzees in a British colonial literature. And because they were white it was more dreadful to the eyes of the British literature. What tells me from this is that the British colonialism had a sort of measure to classify any different peoples in “racial prejudice,” whether they were white or not.