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American Identity (american + identity)
Selected AbstractsSamuel Huntington and the Geopolitics of American Identity: The Function of Foreign Policy in America's Domestic Clash of CivilizationsINTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, Issue 2 2003Emad El-Din Aysha Abstract The clash of civilizations thesis's true origins lie partly in problems Samuel Huntington sees brewing in his own country. His thesis is to a considerable extent an externalization of these troubles,,an attempt to solve them through international means, while serving U.S. national interests in tandem. As a scholar of American exceptionalism Huntington is,,explicitly and openly,,concerned about the political unity and cultural homogeneity of his country in the absence of the existential threat of world Communism. He sees "multiculturalism" and excessive immigration threatening America's dominant Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, English culture and its libertarian political values. Right-wing "anti-federalism" is threatening the authority and very existence of the federal government, while "commercialism," the elevation of commercial interests above all else among economic and political elites, intensifies the class conflict roots of much anti-federalism. The solution to these myriad problems is a foreign threat, whether real or perceived; hence, the clash of civilizations. [source] Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American IdentityPHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2004Lionel K. McPherson First page of article [source] American Identity and Attitudes Toward Official-English PoliciesPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2003Deborah J. Schildkraut This article analyzes the relationship between each of three conceptions of American identity,liberalism, civic republicanism, and ethnoculturalism,and support for declaring English the official language and printing election ballots only in English. Focus group discussions showed that these conceptions provide a common means of discourse for talking about language conflicts and ethnic change, and that the civic republican conception of American identity is a particularly important factor in the opinion formation process. Although all three conceptions help people to decide whether they think English should be the official language, they are not consistently associated with support for or opposition to restrictive language policies. How individuals interpret these images of national identity also shapes the direction of their preferences. [source] Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity by Leigh H. EdwardsTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 2 2010Bob Batchelor No abstract is available for this article. [source] Tourism and American Identity: Kodak's Conspicuous Consumers AbroadTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 1 2008Rachel Snow First page of article [source] The contribution of ethnic and American identities to the migrant's self-esteem: an empirical investigationINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES, Issue 1 2006Yu-Wen Ying Abstract A psychoanalytic theory of migration postulates that migrants undergo a psychic restructuring which necessitates refueling by the culture of origin and/or its representatives (such as parents). During this time, ethnic identity is central to the migrant's self-esteem. With completion of the mourning processes, the migrant is psychically freed up to also identify with the new country. Over time, the new hybrid identity is consolidated, so that self-esteem is no longer determined by cultural or national identities. The current study empirically tested this postulation in three groups of Chinese migrants who varied in available resources in completing their psychic restructuring. As hypothesized, the function of Chinese and American identities in their self-esteem varied significantly at the time of the study and reflected differential degrees of post-migration identity consolidation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Appropriating Identity or Cultivating Capital?ANTHROPOLOGY OF WORK REVIEW, Issue 1 2005Global English in Offshoring Service Industries Abstract In the popular media, much has been made of the adoption of American identities by Indian nationals working in call centers in urban India. In the transactions between call center workers in India and their American customers, language is often the only conveyor of cultural identity. The implications of this linguistic globalization are drawn out by examining the historical trajectory of the politics of global English in India. I argue that the indigenization of English that has occurred in India represents a shift in the political and cultural contestation over language from the global to the local, so that today the politics of language in India primarily involve contestation between elites and subalterns within India rather than between Indians and a global power. I conclude that the appropriation of American identities by Indian call center workers is mainly for the purpose of cultivating linguistic capital within the Indian context, and does not entail a loss of authenticity or reveal cultural insecurity. More likely, the American customers and media commentators who worry about being duped by Indians faking American accents are the ones who are culturally insecure. [source] Assessing the Debate, Assessing the Damage: Transatlantic Relations after BushBRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2009David Hastings Dunn Transatlantic relations during the Bush administration sank to the lowest point in the post-war period following the invasion of Iraq in 2003. This article provides an analysis of both the current state of that relationship and the academic debate which accompanies it. Arguments over the impact of various factors are analysed to determine the extent of transatlantic divergence. Thus, demographic change in America and Europe, divergence of political values between Europe and America, power differences, post-war geopolitical realignments, European integration and American unilateralism and exceptionalism are all analysed and evaluated. While some of these arguments presented are challenged, the article argues that the process of constructing separate European and American identities from within the transatlantic community is the single most significant contemporary challenge to transatlantic relations. [source] Black Like This: Race, Generation, and Rock in the Post-Civil Rights EraAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2000Maureen Mahon In this article, I demonstrate that the intersection of race, class, generation, and education had a decisive impact on African American rock musicians who came of age during the post-civil rights era from the late 1960s to the present. By analyzing life stories, I connect rock musicians' experiences with school desegregation to the position they occupy between black and white mainstreams and discuss how they critique discourses of black authenticity through the identities and practices they have produced as members of the Black Rock Coalition. I also consider the effects of racism and racializing discourses on this group of African Americans. [African American identity, music, black middle class, race and class, generation, life stories, United States] [source] American Identity and Attitudes Toward Official-English PoliciesPOLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2003Deborah J. Schildkraut This article analyzes the relationship between each of three conceptions of American identity,liberalism, civic republicanism, and ethnoculturalism,and support for declaring English the official language and printing election ballots only in English. Focus group discussions showed that these conceptions provide a common means of discourse for talking about language conflicts and ethnic change, and that the civic republican conception of American identity is a particularly important factor in the opinion formation process. Although all three conceptions help people to decide whether they think English should be the official language, they are not consistently associated with support for or opposition to restrictive language policies. How individuals interpret these images of national identity also shapes the direction of their preferences. [source] | ||||||||||