BIFFOs, jackeens and Dagenham Yanks: county identity, “authenticity” and the Irish diaspora

Scully, Marc Donnchadh

doi:10.1080/09670882.2013.808874

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“…Nash (2008) has demonstrated that for Irish-Americans involved in the pursuit of the genealogical origins, the focus is often to locate a specific geographical place where their ancestor(s) lived, that this "authenticates and verifies what was previously a general but unspecific ancestral connection". (This corresponds with my own findings on the importance of county identity in the Irish diaspora (Scully, 2013)). The attraction of the discovery of the ancestral home appears to be the air of legitimacy it leads to diasporic claims on Irishness -allowing Nash's respondents to distinguish themselves from 'temporary and superficial' performances of Irish ancestry in America, such as on St Patrick's Day.…”

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Scully¹

2018

Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

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Section: Section 2: Descent and Dnasupporting

confidence: 91%

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Scully¹

2018

Routledge Handbook of Diaspora Studies

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“…Although Roz talked of an ‘English accent’, it was often local or regional accents that most securely positioned people as national (Antonsich, 2018; Scully, 2013), and several participants used the strong regional accents of British people of colour to authenticate their belonging. Despite apparently inclusivist intentions, such comments often had an undercurrent of amusement.…”

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Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain

Clarke

2021

Sociological Research Online

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This article examines the significance of race in how nation is articulated by the white middle-classes in ‘post-racial’ Britain. In doing so, it highlights the centrality of bodies and informal markers of difference within processes of national recognition and reveals a normative expectation for British bodies racialised as non-white to perform or inhabit (particular kinds of) whiteness. Bringing insights from post-race theory and advocating a broad conceptualisation of whiteness as a set of relational ideas and codes, the article demonstrates that whiteness continues to shape and underpin dominant conceptions of Britishness – articulated by middle-class white Britons – even as they recognise people of colour individually, and to some extent collectively, as British. Since the role and symbolic power of the white middle-classes is often overlooked in discussions of Britishness, the article makes an important contribution to debates on race and nation, illustrating how whiteness continues to function in alledgedly ‘post-race’ societies. It concludes that narrow definitions of race and whiteness allow their continued significance to be under-estimated and ultimately enable the perpetuation of racialised hierarchies of belonging.

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Star Leverage, Local Matters, and Transnational Media: Chris O’Dowd, Moone Boy and Puffin Rock

McIntyre

2022

Contemporary Irish Popular Culture

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BIFFOs, jackeens and Dagenham Yanks: county identity, “authenticity” and the Irish diaspora

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Writing in diaspora

Writing in diaspora

Recognising British Bodies: The Significance of Race and Whiteness in ‘Post-Racial’ Britain

Star Leverage, Local Matters, and Transnational Media: Chris O’Dowd, Moone Boy and Puffin Rock

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