Abstract
Daniel Williams has put together an extraordinarily interesting collection of essays on cultural interactions — mergers and antagonisms — between Celtic, AfricanAmerican, and Afro-Caribbean identities. In presenting fresh archival work and new close readings, the essays are also attentive issues of linguistic and racial difference and to changing theories of belonging. Michael Newton offers the first full examination of Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders and black Americans in the US, pursuing especially leads toward the presence of black speakers of Gaelic, thus opening a theoretical discussion about the significance race and language in notions of group membership and about alternative models of assimilation. He is right in assuming that the anecdote he begins with and returns to at the end was common among other immigrant groups as well: thus Die Emigranten, a play published in German in St Louis in 1882, included the following scene:
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