Transatlantic Scots [electronic resource] / edited by Celeste Ray ; foreword by James Hunter.

ISBN:

9780817384203

Title:

Author:

Ray, R. Celeste.

Personal Author:

Ray, R. Celeste.

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Transatlantic Scots and Ethnicity; 2. Scottish Immigration and Ethnic Organization in the United States; 3. A Brief History of Organized Scottishness in Canada; 4. From the Quebec-Hebrideans to "les cossais-Qubcois": Tracing the Evolution of a Scottish Cultural Identity in Canada's Eastern Townships; 5. Powerful Pathos: The Triumph of Scottishness in Nova Scotia; 6. You Play It as You Would Sing It: Cape Breton, Scottishness, and the Means of Cultural Production.

7. The North American migr, Highland Games, and Social Capital in International Communities8. Troubling Times in the Scottish-American Relationship; 9. Bravehearts and Patriarchs: Masculinity on the Pedestal in Southern Scottish Heritage Celebration; 10. Finding Colonsay's Emigrants and a "Heritage of Place"; 11. Pilgrims to the Far Country: North American "roots-tourists" in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; 12. Tartan Day in America; 13. Transatlantic Scots, Their Interlo.

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Subject Term:

Scots -- North America -- History.

Scots -- North America -- Social life and customs.

Scots -- North America -- Ethnic identity.

Regionalism -- North America.

Transnationalism.

Geographic Term:

Scotland -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

North America -- Emigration and immigration -- History.

North America -- Ethnic relations.

Écossais -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire.

Écosse -- Émigration et immigration -- Histoire.

Amérique du Nord -- Relations interethniques.

Added Author:

Hunter, James.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2005

Publication Information:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2005.

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Summary

Examines the impact of the Scottish legacy on North American cultures and heritage
During the past four decades, growing interest in North Americans' cultural and ancestral ties to Scotland has produced hundreds of new Scottish clan and heritage societies. Well over 300 Scottish Highland games and gatherings annually take place across the U.S. and Canada.
Transatlantic Scots is a multidisciplinary collection that studies the regional organization and varied expressions of the Scottish Heritage movement in the Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes, New England, and the American South. From diverse perspectives, authorities in their fields consider the modeling of a Scottish identity that distances heritage celebrants from prevalent visions of whiteness. Considering both hyphenated Scots who celebrate centuries-old transmission of Scottish traditions and those for whom claiming or re-claiming a Scottish identity is recent and voluntary, this book also examines how diaspora themes and Highland imagery repeatedly surface in regional public celebrations and how traditions are continually reinvented through the accumulation of myths. The underlying theoretical message is that ethnicity and heritage survive because of the flexibility of history and tradition.
This work is a lasting contribution to the study of ethnicity and identity, the renegotiation of history and cultural memory into heritage, and the public performance and creation of tradition.

Author Notes

Celeste Ray is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. She is the author of Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South and editor of Southern Heritage on Display: Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism.

Reviews (1)

Choice Review

Anthropologist Ray (Univ. of the South) has assembled an impressive collection of essays that offer a comprehensive, insightful view of Scottish ethnicity in North America. The compilation reaches across academic boundaries, combining regional histories of institutional Scottish ethnicity in Canada and the southern US with anthropological analysis and interdisciplinary scholarship. The essays also cover a wide ideological spectrum in their discussion of the reasons behind the contemporary resurgence of expatriate interest in Scottish heritage, ranging from Andrew Hook's attribution of regional racism in the southern US to Ray's focus on interracial participation in Scots American festivities. The collection's most significant contribution comes through Ray's acknowledgement of expatriate creativity. This insight frees contributors from a pedantic fixation on authenticity and encourages them to address deeper issues such as the rise of Scottish heritage tourism, gender constraints at Highland games, and the establishment of Tartan Day in the US. The collection transcends the simple debate over the merits of Scottish ethnicity to address the more profound questions regarding its nature. ^BSumming Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. M. J. O'Brien Franciscan University of Steubenville