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Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in Bristish National Development - Page xxix
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Masculinities in Joyce: Postcolonial Constructions

Colleen Lamos - Masculinity in literature - 2001 - 272 pages
...extraordinary agitation over racial similarity which gestures toward the precariousness of these constructs. I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Race and Ethnicity: Debates and controversies

Harry Goulbourne - Social Science - 2001 - 450 pages
...1975) captured the assigned racial inferiority of the Irish perfectly, writing of his visit to Ireland: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. ... I believe there are not only many more of them than 91 of old, but they are happier, better, more comfortably...
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A History of Black and Asian Writing in Britain, 1700-2000

C. L. Innes - History - 2002 - 336 pages
...seen in the letters of another novelist, Charles Kingsley, to his wife, as he toured Ireland in 1860: But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...believe they are our fault. I believe there are not only more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under...
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Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland

Bryan Fanning - History - 2002 - 228 pages
...superiority." One example of this was an account of the Irish written by Charles Kingsley in 1860: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country ... to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their...
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The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination

John Marriott - History - 2003 - 264 pages
...Resartus of the Irish as 'white negroes', and Kingsley's impressions on his tour of Ireland in 1860: But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State

Arturo J. Aldama - Political Science - 2003 - 470 pages
...example, Charles Kingsley offered the following comments during his visit to Sligo, Ireland, in 1860: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...country. I don't believe they are our fault. I believe . . . that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever...
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Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State

Arturo J. Aldama - Political Science - 2003 - 466 pages
...Kingsley offered the following comments dtning his visit to Sligo, Ireland, in t86o: I iun haunted bv the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles...country. I don't believe they are our fault. I believe . . . that they are happier, bener, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland

William F. Kelleher - Social Science - 2010 - 272 pages
...fetichism, rac1al defects, slave-ships, and ahove all else, ahove all: "Sho' good eatin'." (Fanon 1967, 112) I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. ... to see white chimpanzees is dreadful: if they were black, one would not see 1t so much, but their...
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Native Intelligence: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Literature

Deepika Bahri - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 308 pages
...this observation by quoting remarks made by Charles Kingsley on a visit to Sligo, Ireland, in 1860: "1 am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. ... to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their...
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Hard-Science Linguistics

Victor Yngve, Zdzislaw Wasik - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 402 pages
...beings' (Curtis 1968:85), and in 1860 Charles Kingsley in a letter from Ireland to his wife reported: I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along...there are not only many more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better and more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were....
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