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Since Americans don’t have an identical ethnic, national, religious, or linguistic background, it’s complicated to define the term American identity. Throughout history, being an American meant sharing a national culture founded on religious, ethnic, and racial concepts.
Since 2015, PRRI has asked questions about the hard boundaries of American identity on four occasions. This battery of questions assesses how important the following factors are to being “truly” American: being a Christian, being born in America, being able to speak English, and believing in God.
Scholars of American identity have typically concluded that Americans more widely endorse civic values than ascriptive ones in surveys, though IATs suggest that there are robust associations between race and American identity.
focus on only two components of American identity: liberalism (America as a land of freedom and oppor-tunity) and ethnoculturalism (America as a nation of white Protestants). While analysis of additional dimensions of American identity have animated political science literature in recent years (e.g., Smith
This review examines empirical research about American national identity. It focuses on the social and political causes and consequences of (a) how people define what being American means and (b) their degree of attachment to being American.
David Miller, a leading theorist of liberal nationalism, defines national identity according to the following elements: a shared belief among a group of individuals that they belong together, historical continuity stretching across generations, connection to a particular territory, and a shared set of characteristics constituting a national ...
This study examines whether the increasing ethnic diversity of the United States is changing how the normative content of American identity is defined. It relies on a wide-ranging set of norms to test the claim that an increasingly multicultural America will engender a multicreedal America.
American and national identity. We the People: a millennium of American identities. How have we defined who is an American? Who have we left out?
Here is our survey of some of the major issues involving race and identity from the past 40 years.
The topic of American national identity is explored from the perspective of political science, while drawing on history, political philosophy, and psychology. The chapter begins with an exploration of the concepts of nationalism and patriotism, and discusses how they play a role in American public opinion.