Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1-19 |
Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Early online date | 1 Jun 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 1 Jun 2017 |
Keywords
- ethnicity
- Northern Ireland
- unionism
- loyalism
- diaspora
- dignity