Cowboys: Abstract Expressionism, Hollywood Westerns, and American Progress by Justin Kedl

“…The mythic West as constructed by Turner and these films cemented American identity as one of exploration and innovation, with the notable condition of Indigenous Americans ceding their sovereignty. …”
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Re-Presentation of African American Womanhood in Three Works of the New Negro Visual Arts Movement by Ivana Takáčová

“…Analyzing Motley’s rendition of the black female nude, the article argues that the work restores the black female body to its purity and aesthetic integrity even as it complexly interrogates the issue of the split African American identity in the racially divided world of the period. …”
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The Digital Barbershop: Blogs and Online Oral Culture Within the African American Community by Catherine Knight Steele

“…By utilizing modified song, narrative, and fables to articulate resistance and craft African American identity, African American online oral culture persists as a strategy to house political discourse within the often hidden enclave spaces of the digital barbershop.…”
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Race-based trauma and post-traumatic growth through identity transformation by Dorothy Chin, Amber M. Smith-Clapham, Gail E. Wyatt

“…Based on the work on Black and Asian American identity and integrating theory and research on historical trauma and PTG, this framework posits that the transformation of externally imposed narratives into more authentic, internally generated ones can serve as an important influence that sparks PTG after racial trauma. …”
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Thematic analysis of in-group and out-group debates in an online right-wing extremist community by John Hardy

“…The study finds that key issues being debated between in-group and out-group members of the Stormfront online community relate to perceptions of white identity, African American identity, racial issues, conservative political issues, and the history and politics of the United States. …”
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História e literatura na busca pela identidade na América Latina no século XX: a visão de Richard Morse by Beatriz Helena Domingues

“…Este ensaio aborda a produção latinoamericanista e brasilianista dos anos 1990 sobre a problemática da identidade na América Latina e Brasil, com ênfase na interpretação do historiador norteamericano Richard Morse em “The Multiverse of Latin American Identity, c.1920-c. 1970”, publicado em 1995 e ainda inédito em português. …”
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“I’ve Got a Hunch We’re Going Around in Circles”: Exceptions to American Exceptionalism in Hollywood Korean War Films by Junghyun Hwang

“…Hollywood Korean War films primarily aimed at integrating American citizenry into national narratives of cohesion and teleology by displacing contradictions onto the exteriority of American identity. The films dismiss the Korean War as not worth fighting for, yet simultaneously propose that fighting is the only viable option to cope with the futility of war. …”
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From Physical to Spiritual Errand: The Immigrant Experience in John Winthrop, William Bradford, and Samuel Danforth by Justyna Fruzińska

“…Taking into account the well-documented influence of Puritans on American identity (often noticed by scholars since Tocqueville), the paper elaborates on the Puritans’ and Pilgrims’ mindsets as they arrived in the New World, connected not only with their religious beliefs but most of all with a practical need to organize themselves effectively. …”
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Jazzthetic Technique: Oralizing Fiction and Jazz Strategies in Toni Morrison’s <i>Jazz</i> by Trivius Gerard Caldwell

“…Additionally, this essay explains the ways that Morrison makes clear the implications of migrant cultural expression in service of identity formation, suggesting that the micro-novels in the novel <i>Jazz</i> are contributors to a larger ensemble that functions epistemologically to render the African American experience as central to American identity.…”
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História e literatura na busca pela identidade na América Latina no século XX: a visão de Richard Morse by Beatriz Helena Domingues

“…Este ensaio aborda a produção latino-americanista e brasilianista dos anos 1990 sobre a problemática da identidade na América Latina e no Brasil com ênfase na interpretação do historiador norte-americano Richard Morse em “The Multiverse of Latin American Identity, c.1920-c. 1970”, publicado em 1995 e ainda inédito em português. …”
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Trans-Historical Trauma and Healing via Mapping of History/(-ies) in Leslie Silko’s 'Almanac of the Dead' by Cornelia Vlaicu

“… Almanac of the Dead is concerned with Native American identity politic s as an act of “survivance” (Vizenor). …”
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Exceptionnalisme et impérialisme dans le discours de politique étrangère américain des années Clinton by Frédéric Heurtebize

“…In other words, are exceptionalism and imperialism intrinsic features of American identity or are they just products of adversity?…”
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Alteridad latinoamericana y sujeto-pueblo en la obra temprana de Enrique Dussel by Guillermo Barón del Pópolo, Manuel Cuervo Sola, Victoria Martínez Espínola

“…The following article intends an overview on Enrique Dussel’s early work and the examination of the development process of political and philosophical categories such as the ones of “Latin-American identity / otherness”; “Latin-American thought” and political and historical subjects. …”
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The Impact of Immigrant Religions on the Nature of Religious Pluralism in the USA and Western Europe by Elena D. Rutkevich

“…Religion in America is a positive resource and a basis for incorporating immigrants into American society, their recognition in public life, assimilation and construction of an American identity. By contrast, in Western Europe immigrant religions, particularly Islam, are perceived primarily as an obstacle to incorporating immigrants into European societies and their recognition in the public domain. …”
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“The very land of romance”: Original Compositions on Spain and the Spanish in The Southern Literary Messenger (1834-1864) by José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas

“…It is undeniable that Spain and the culturally Spanish has had a strong influence in the shaping of US American identity and culture. From the notions of Jeffersonian Quixotism to the buildings of Rafael Guastavino populating New York, the presence of Spain has been a constant. …”
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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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América vista como hacer póético: una lectura de La expresión americana de José Lezama Lima by Brenda Vega Nava

“…Abstract   José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer, approaches in La expresión americana the problem of cultural identity in the Americas, and suggests a new vision of artistic patterns that constitute his vision of American identity. This article is a reading of his essay to account for the characteristics that make up the poetic identity of the continent.…”
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The Assassination of Lieutenant Joe Petrosino: A Contested Symbol in the Mainstream and Italian-American Press in the Early 20th Century by Marina Cacioppo

“…Italians were represented predominantly in the context of criminality, so immigrant writers constructed their own counter-representations in newspapers, re-coding stereotypes and negotiating a collective Italian-American identity. In the press, Petrosino became a contested symbol: on the one hand, of the rhetoric of the inclusiveness of the American melting pot and, on the other, of the possibility of redemption from the discredit that the actions of a small minority threw on the whole community.…”
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El mestizaje como identidad latinoamericana en <i>El recurso del método</i> de Alejo Carpentier by María Salvadora Ortiz

“…En este artículo se analiza cómo racial mezcla se muestra en "El recurso del método", de Alejo Carpentier.   Latín American identity was gradually formed as different cultures intermingled in a contínuing process of transculturation in which native Americans, Spaniards, Blacks and Chinese interrelated and brought about various syncretisms. …”
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On the Road to ‘Some' Place: Sofia Coppola’s Dissident Modernism Against a Postmodern Landscape by Todd Kennedy

“…I begin by explaining the background of the figure of the hobo-hero, and its relationship to modernism, and then return to look at the manner in which Coppola draws upon this image in order to invoke (and comment upon) American identity, the postmodern culture of Los Angeles/Hollywood, and questions that are central to the discourse of philosophical modernism. …”
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