Chao Fa Movies: The Transnational Production of Hmong American History and Identity by Ian G. Baird

“…Thus, the Chao Fa movies are important for producing and reproducing, reinforcing and dispersing ideas related to Hmong American identity and culture. They tell stories of the Hmong being oppressed by many different groups, and this history suggests why many Hmong—not only the Chao Fa—have long desired the type of independence and freedom from prejudice and discrimination that they imagine would come if the Hmong only had their own nation state.…”
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Something Wicked Westward Goes: Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson’s Californian Uncanny by Robyn Pritzker

“…The phenomenon of the Californian Uncanny in “The Warlock’s Shadow” reflects these gendered and geographical anxieties of American identity, confronting the ghosts of the nation’s westernmost region.…”
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Representations of the Iraqi “Other” in the Iraq War (2003-2011): Memoirs Written by Americans by Merve ÖZMAN KAYA

“…This analysis suggests that Americans can eliminate their negative opinions of the Iraqi “other” only when they question the mythical American identity and engage in an individual process of identity formation.…”
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American culture-specific items designating status: Translation aspects by Slavova Liudmyla, Borysenko Natalia, Demenchuk Dariia

“…The paper focuses around lexemes that functioned during and after the Civil War and nominated the inhabitants of the USA according to their background, political and religious views, social layer, occupation, ethnic or Afro-American identity. Structuring cultural knowledge is manifested in the cultural code, which is verbalised due to the use of the abovementioned groups of words denoting status in the novel under study. …”
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"Writing into the Rupture": Visual Selves in Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment by Hana Rivers

“…While lesser known, Mary-Kim Arnold’s Litany for the Long Moment (2018) is a highly referential lyric essay that employs visual elements, including personal ephemera, to consider the unrelenting complexities of Asian American identity. Analyzing Arnold’s formal intervention into Asian American literature through Francesca Woodman’s photography and Roland Barthes’ photography theory reveals that visual subjects are evasive and unknowable. …”
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Excerpt from <em>Dead Stars: American and Philippine Literary Perspectives on the American Colonization of the Philippines</em> by Jennifer M. McMahon

“…Du Bois, and William James to America’s first foray into the role of colonizer and how their varied essays, letters, and speeches provide an incisive delineation of fundamental conflicts in American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.…”
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QUESTÕES DE IDENTIDADE, DIFERENÇA E PÓS-MODERNIDADE NA AMÉRICA LATINA by Ricardo Rojas Fabres

“…It is intended, therefore, present the idea that Latin American identity is historically characterized by the "other", particularly by the process of imposition and cultural colonization that was imposed by the Europe. …”
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Translational Form in Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being by Claire Gullander-Drolet

“…I begin by considering the import of this intervention to the field of Asian American literary studies, focusing on how Ozeki mobilizes the formal elements of interlingual translation to push back against<strong> </strong>naturalizing conceptions of Asian / American identity. I then apply this translational framework to the divergent accounts of history in the novel, and argue that—by calling attention to the fissures and gaps in these narratives—Ozeki offers a new model of empathic reading, one that draws herself and her readers together through a logic of “not knowing.” …”
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Clowns, Guns and a Writer’s Block: Romanian-American Encounters in Her Alibi (1989) by Gabriela-Iuliana COLIPCĂ-CIOBANU

“…The paper proposes an imagological exploration of the interplay of images of American identity in the late 1980s and of the Romanian migrant, trapped between ‘Home’ and the ‘West’, in an American production that, more or less explicitly, draws on propaganda-ridden Cold War themes.…”
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Evolution of the “American Dream” as a Value System and its Representation in Hollywood Movies by Yuliana Melkumyan, Seda Mkrtchyan

“…It is one of the core elements of the American identity. The idea of the “American dream” presents the terminal values of equality, liberty, prosperity and happiness. …”
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MASCULINIDAD Y PERTENENCIA EN THE BROTHERS SIZE DE TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY by Jesús Valencia

“…McCraney creates complex characters that problematize collectivist notions of African American identity. Through a raw theater style, syncretic blendings and great linguistic musicality, The Brothers Size interrogates African American masculinity by contrasting the intimate lives of the characters with ideas, patterns and expectations that reduce Black, male existence to racial discourses and conflicts. …”
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“Call Me an Innocent Criminal”: Dual Discourse, Gender, and “Chinese” America in Nie Hualing’s <i>Sangqing yu Taohong</i>/<i>Mulberry and Peach</i> by Serena Fusco

“…While the publication of Nie’s novel coincides with the initial articulations of Asian American identity in the context of political activism, <em>Sangqing yu Taohong</em>/<em>Mulberry and Peach</em> also anticipates the growing interest for contextualizing the Asian American experience as a transnational phenomenon. …”
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The American Butterfly by Megan Hermida Lu

“…-Asia Pacific relations, I examine how the Butterfly narrative evolves, and how it helped define American identity. The intention of this project is not simply to examine U.S. projection of the “Orient,” but how this projection reflects the American self. …”
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Queer and Asian: Redefining Chinese American Masculinity in The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, 1993) and Red Doors (Georgia Lee, 2006) by Juliette Ledru

“…Consequently, Chinese American masculinity comes both as a site of submission and resistance, in which queer Chinese Americans meet the difficult challenge to conform neither to the Chinese nor to the American identity that cultural representations offer. …”
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Article: Download Age-related characteristics of English, American, and Russian compliments by Kurakina N. A.

“…As to intentions, people with a mature English identity gravitate towards politeness, those with mature American identity towards praise, and those with mature Russian identity towards praise and flattery. …”
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Arab-American Faces and Voices by Loukia K. Sarroub

“…However, more could be said, for example, about how property, as well as the use of space for business, church, and family, contributed to an Arab and American identity-in-themaking ...…”
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Music at the Black Baltic Sea by Kärjä Antti-Ville

“…This is particularly pronounced in the case of so-called black music, i.e. the types of music that are commonly associated with African-American identity, most notably jazz and various forms of popular music. …”
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MARGARET FULLER’S PUBLICISTIC DIALOGUE WITH AMERICA’S PURITAN HERITAGE by M. P. Kizima

“…Fuller criticized the New England Puritans; nevertheless, she regarded Puritanism as a source of American identity, the “noble” blood that could play an important role at the time when the country faced new waves of immigration.The analysis leads to the general conclusion that Fuller’s worksas a publicist werea landmark in the history of American Transcendentalism as it moved beyond the boundaries of New England to encompass the emerging American nation in the international world.…”
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Las Vegas Is a Faithful Mormon City: Phyllis Barber’s Search for Identity through Fiction and Place by Angel Chaparro

“…Furthermore, Barber’s autobiography contributes with a new different approach to Las Vegas as an iconic city and to the West as a paradigm in which American identity was formed. Resumen: En How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir, Phyllis Barber utiliza Las Vegas como un complejo escenario donde los valores fomentados por la cultura Mormona chocan con aquellos de la cultura popular y secular. …”
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Bilingüisme, identitat nacional i diversitat als Estats Units by Michel Rosenfeld

“…The fear of a loss of American identity lent further strength to the English-only movement. …”
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