Annals of the Association of American Geographers · 2004 · 26 citations · 86 references
EthnicityCritical Race TheoryWise Use ActivistsNationalismEthnohistoryEducationRacial StudyContemporary CultureRaceCultural IdentityWhite SupremacyCeltic IdentityAfrican American StudiesAmerican IdentityCultural PolicyEthnic StudiesCultural HistoryIdentity PoliticsEthnic IdentityCultureAmerican WestCultural PoliticsAnthropologyArtsSocial AnthropologyCultural Anthropology
Abstract Claims regarding a unitary, coherent “Celtic” culture and its westward spread over centuries have proliferated rapidly over the past 10 to 15 years. We examine both this general phenomenon, and one specific instance of it in detail: the claims of Celtic identity by Wise Use activists in New Mexico in the 1990s. Our primary concern is to examine their significance and utility in contemporary cultural politics. We argue that they have provided a powerful way for many white people in Western Europe and the United States to claim for themselves an ethnic identity strongly associated with oppression and resistance to the state, a position that affords them symbolic resources in negotiating the challenges of both multiculturalism and neoliberalism.
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Questions of Cultural Identity
Jessica Jacobson, Stuart Hall, Paul du Gay · British Journal of Sociology · 1997 · 4.3K citations
Ethnicity, Identity Studies (Intersectionality Studies), Culture +13