According to Noel Ignatiev's How the Irish Became White, Irish Catholic immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants came to be accepted as white because they

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Ignatiev's thesis in "How the Irish Became White" is that Irish Catholic immigrants were initially not considered white by the Anglo-Saxon majority in the United States but gained acceptance as white over time, in part, by participating in the practices of white supremacy, distancing themselves from African Americans and aligning with the dominant white culture.