Trieste and Louis Adamic’s Transnational Identities by John Paul Enyeart

“…By examining Slovene immigrant to the United States and world-renowned author Louis Adamic’s effort to mediate between his Yugoslav and American identities, this article helps us to think what having a transnational identity means. …”
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Squaw Teats*, Harney Peak, and Negrohead Creek*: A Corpus-Linguistic Investigation of Proposals to Change Official US Toponymy to (Dis)honor Indigenous US Americans by I. M. Nick

“…Using an original corpus compiled from 10 years of USBGN petitions, this empirical study identified patterns in the type, motivation, and argumentation used to (dis)honor Native American identities, histories, and cultures via names and naming. …”
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The Mediated Figure of Hmong Farmer, Hmong Studies, and Asian American Critique by Hui Niu Wilcox

“…The focal question is how media discourses around farming and immigration serve to racialize Hmong American identities. This analysis shows that Hmong Americans experience “Asiatic racialization” in that they are either discursively cast outside of the imagined American nation, or included contingent upon assimilation and conformity. …”
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Bi-Modal Name and Tragicomic Fate: Delmore Schwartz’s Shenandoah Fish and Thane Rosenbaum’s Duncan Katz by Adam Meyer

“…It is clear that the future writers’ parents, immigrants all, were trying to endow their sons with American identities, but the outrageous bi-modality of the resulting names undermined that effort, showing instead the children’s alienation from being fully connected to their native land. …”
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Using Twitter Bios to Measure Changes in Self-Identity: Are Americans Defining Themselves More Politically Over Time? by Nick Rogers, Jason J. Jones

“…Much recent scholarship has speculated that this politicization of Americans’ identity is occurring, but there has been little compelling attempt to quantify the phenomenon, largely because the concept of identity is notoriously difficult to measure. …”
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FRAGMENTASI IDENTITAS DALAM NOVEL THE COLOR PURPLE KARYA ALICE WALKER by , JUSTINE NIKEN AFDA, S.S, , Dr. Wening Udasmoro, M.Hum., DEA.

“…The research was motivated by the phenomenon of African-American identities that are fragmented. The issue of identity can be initiated by differences in class or social status. …”

It is More than a Bunch of Numbers: Trauma, Voicing and Identity in Jennifer Chow’s The 228 Legacy by Pi-hua Ni

“…Thus, the novel proper not only portrays the traumatic impact, a nightmarish “legacy,” of 228 but also renders Silk’s trauma narrative as the “legacy” to connect with Taiwanese heritage and construct Taiwanese American identities. Given Chow’s innovative form and unique themes about trauma and Taiwanese American diaspora, the article situates her novel in the emerging Taiwanese American literature, Asian American literature, contemporary American diasporic literature and trauma fiction.…”
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Ingroup love, outgroup hate, and the gateway group effect: Comparing the direct and indirect impact of dual versus single identification by Aharon Levy, Adam Galinsky, Christine Q. Nguyen, Tamar Saguy, Elif G. Ikizer, John F. Dovidio

“…We propose that when people are exposed to dual-identified individuals and groups (e.g., Muslim-Americans explicitly identifying with both their Muslim and American identities), intergroup attitudes will improve, driven more by the ingroup component (American), despite the presence of the outgroup component (Muslim). …”
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Southend Struggles: Converging Narratives Of An Arab/Muslim American Enclave by Sally Howell

“…Thus the Southend struggles provide key insights into the social challenges that came to define Arab-American (and Muslim-American) identities in the half century that followed. In this essay I bring these histories together and explain why more work needs to be done before we can make sense of the political challenges Arabs and Muslims—as distinctive and overlapping communities—have faced in the US. …”
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“España Y Latinoamérica Se Han Entendido Siempre, Incluso En Español ” Problemas De Identidad Lingüística En La Hispanofonía. by Joachim Born

“…Abstract In this article I intend to analyze some aspects of the Spanish and Latin American identities. While the linguistic domains of French and Portuguese are united in official -phonies (Fran-cophonie, Lusophonie), in the Spanish-speaking area there is a predominance of the term hispanidad. …”
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Politika identit v čínských enklávách amerických měst: muzejní narace by Daniel Topinka, Jakub Havlíček

“…The exhibitions come with a so-called canonical narrative that is linearly conceived and introduces the “harmony” of Chinese and American identities. The canonical narrative is coherently and logically conceived, the presented themes support the whole narrative. …”
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The Wake at the Root: Understanding Racial Identity Refinement through Genetic Ancestry Testing and Theater Performance by Devin A. Heyward

“…Participants (<i>n</i> = 8) were enrolled in an arts-in-education program that uses theater to explore Black Americans’ identities and family histories. This study used theater performance and modified life narrative interviews to understand how participation informed understandings of the self and others. …”
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Identity Negotiation of Chinese American’s Twoness in Lisa Ko’s The Leavers: Postcolonial Approach by Eka Nurcahyani, Muhammad Sulthon Kamil

“…Nevertheless, Deming ultimately succeeds in negotiating his multicultural identities and settle his twoness by hybridizes his clashing Chinese and American identities. This hybridity creates a balanced identity within him, thus solving his identity ambivalence caused by his twoness</p>…”
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Transnational Debts: The Cultural Memory of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II by Birgit Däwes

“…Through codes of orality, communal identity, and historicity, I argue, counter-strategies of narrating and remembering World War II not only decisively shape a revisionist writing of recent history and enrich the multicultural narrative of ‘America’ by Indigenous voices, but they also substantially contribute to current debates about transnational American identities.…”
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Interweaving Pittsburgh’s Black Cosmogony: Transgenerational Trauma, African Cultural Affiliation and Spiritual Restoration in August Wilson’s Joe Turner‘s Come and Gone (1988)... by Mariame WANE LY & Faguèye SECK

“…As such, the present study aims at investigating African American experience through the post Slavery era by establishing how sociological prejudiced elements such as history, culture, and race are detrimental to African Americans’ identity construction. The present study also aims to demonstrate how the narrative of the traces formulated by the patterns of water and bones poetics stand as an adjustment of memories to modern contingencies. …”
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Migration, Displacement, and Movements in the Global Space: Ming-Yuen S. Ma’s Multi-Media Project <i>Xin Lu: A Travelogue in Four Parts</i> by Xiaojing Zhou

“…Although cyberspace is not confined by national borders, Wong examines how subversion of and intervention in race- and sex-based hierarchies in cyberspace can articulate Asian American identities in relation to diasporas and the nation-state. …”
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A América do Sul no discurso diplomático brasileiro South America and Brazilian diplomacy: shifting identities by Luís Cláudio Villafañe G. Santos

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Finding Mecca in America by Celene Ayat Lizzio

“…In turn, Muslims are demonstrating their collective abilities to define authentically American identities through social and political activism, forms of strategic public outreach, even ethnic comedy ...…”
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The Transnational Viking: The Role of the Viking in Sweden, the United States, and Swedish America by Dag Blanck

“…The third usage is a “Swedish-American Viking,” dealing with ways in which the Swedish-American ethnic communities appropriated the Vikings, and made them a part of the formation of Swedish-American identities in the US from the late 19th century.…”
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La conciencia de la mestiza /towards a new consciousness: uma conversação inter-americana com Gloria Anzaldúa La conciencia de la mestiza/towards a new consciousness: an inter-amer... by Sonia Torres

“…<br>This essay proposes a reading of Gloria Anzaldua's "La consciencia de la mestiza/towards a new consciousness", interwoven with a dialogue that looks at possible points linking modalities of thinking Chicana and Latin American identities, given Latin American and Caribbean obsession with identity, which has generated both fictional and theoretical works (as well as those that, like Anzaldua's, conflate the two genres) that resist polarization (even while incorporating it), through the recogniztion of a complex, multi-faceted culture in which the texts of the colonized/colonizing, oppressor/oppressed, dominant culture/dominated culture are inextricable.…”
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