Can I read Highland heritage : Scottish Americans in the American South on EtoBox?

Highland heritage : Scottish Americans in the American South by R. Celeste Ray is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Highland heritage : Scottish Americans in the American South about?

Each Year, Tens Of Thousands Of People Flock To Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, And To More Than Two Hundred Other Locations Across The Country To Attend Scottish Highland Games And Gatherings. There, Kilt-wearing Participants Compete In Athletics, Highland Dancing, And Bagpiping, While Others Join Clan Societies In Celebration Of A Scottish Heritage. As Celeste Ray Notes, However, The Scottish Affiliation That Americans Claim Today Is A Highland Gaelic Identity That Did Not Come To Characterize That Nation Until Long After The Ancestors Of Many Scottish Americans Had Left Scotland. Through Ethnographic And Ethnohistoric Research, Ray Explores How Highland Scottish Themes And Lore Merge With Southern Regional Myths And Identities To Produce A Unique Style Of Commemoration And A Complex Sense Of Identity For Scottish Americans In The South. In The Process, She Challenges Those Who Argue That Ethnicity Is Tethered To Race And That Celebrations Of Ethnicity By European Americans Are Celebrations Of Whiteness. More Than A Contemporary Response To Multiculturalism, Ray Argues, These Affirmations Of Scottish-american Heritage Draw On Centuries-old Traditions And Transnational Links

Author

R. Celeste Ray

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807849132

Subjects

Sociology, History, Science