‘Hard neighbors’? (or actually invaders?): Colin G. Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity, OUP, 2024 | settler colonial studies blog

‘Hard neighbors’? (or actually invaders?): Colin G. Calloway, Hard Neighbors: The Scotch-Irish Invasion of Native America and the Making of an American Identity, OUP, 2024

17Oct24

Description: An intricate portrayal of the early American settlers who came to be known as Scotch-Irish, who through collusion and bloody conflict acted as the tip of the spear of white colonial expansion into Indian lands. Offers a complex depiction of Scotch-Irish interactions with Native Americans over time and across the continent. Explores historic roots of resentment and violence against government and minorities, connecting them to current tensions and the politics of resentment. Reconsiders terms like “American expansion” by focusing on the stories of violence and conflict that transformed Indian people into racial others and allowed “English settlers” to consider themselves Americans.

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