Diaspora, defeatism, and dignity: Ulster Protestant reimaginations of the self through Ulster-Scots Americanism

TY - JOUR

T1 - Diaspora, defeatism, and dignity

T2 - Ulster Protestant reimaginations of the self through Ulster-Scots Americanism

AU - Gardner, Peter Robert

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PY - 2018/9/2

Y1 - 2018/9/2

N2 - The notion of an American diaspora has become increasingly salient among the minority of Ulster Protestants who ascribe to the “Ulster-Scots” ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. Especially in light of the well-established conception of an Irish-American diaspora, the effort Ulster’s “Protestant community” to construct and delineate a separate, non-Irish genealogical diaspora reveals much about their collective self-conceptions and aspirations. In this paper, I argue that the descriptions of Ulster-Scots-American diaspora represent both means of recasting “their” actions and ideologies as ethnically predestined, and an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity in light of palpable postbellum defeatism.

AB - The notion of an American diaspora has become increasingly salient among the minority of Ulster Protestants who ascribe to the “Ulster-Scots” ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. Especially in light of the well-established conception of an Irish-American diaspora, the effort Ulster’s “Protestant community” to construct and delineate a separate, non-Irish genealogical diaspora reveals much about their collective self-conceptions and aspirations. In this paper, I argue that the descriptions of Ulster-Scots-American diaspora represent both means of recasting “their” actions and ideologies as ethnically predestined, and an attempt to regain a sense of collective dignity in light of palpable postbellum defeatism.

U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2017.1332379

DO - 10.1080/01419870.2017.1332379

M3 - Article

SN - 0141-9870

VL - 41

SP - 2048

EP - 2066

JO - ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES

JF - ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES

IS - 11

ER -