El Sueño Americano: inmigración y formación de la identidad cultural en Estados Unidos

  • Mimi Yang Carthage College
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4025/dialogos.v24i1.51952
Palabras clave: Sueño Americano; inmigración; WASPs; identidad cultural; dualidad; nativismo; doble conciencia; Frederick Douglass; W. E. B. DuBois

Resumen

Este artículo confronta la identidad estadounidense monoculturalista y postula una identidad multicultural y multirracial, moldeada por la historia de la inmigración. Además, disecciona el Sueño Americano bajo la lente tanto de los WASPs como de los inmigrantes no-WASPs, particularmente a mediados del siglo XIX. Al correlacionar la dualidad cultural y la doble conciencia a través de los WASPs, inmigrantes posteriores, nativistas, y culturalistas afroamericanos, el artículo afirma una identidad cultural estadounidense maleable y en evolución, constantemente (re)configurada por las sucesivas oleadas de inmigrantes.

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Biografía del autor/a

Mimi Yang, Carthage College

Profesora titular (Doctora) de Lenguas Modernas en Carthage College, Wisconsin (Estados Unidos). Es autora del libro Tricultural Personality (Chinese, English, Spanish): A Cross-Cultural Paradigm (Edwin Mellen, 2014). Formada como latinoamericanista (en la Universidad de Arizona), ha publicado extensamente en inglés y español sobre temas relacionados con la posmodernidad latinoamericana, la identidad cultural, la poesía, las artes visuales y la pedagogía de enseñanza de idiomas. La Dra. Yang recibió el Premio al Educador Global de Wisconsin a nivel de educación superior en 2004. Ha vivido, estudiado y trabajado en los mundos de habla inglesa, española y china.

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Publicado
2020-03-04
Cómo citar
Yang, M. (2020). El Sueño Americano: inmigración y formación de la identidad cultural en Estados Unidos. Dialogos, 24(1), 178-226. https://doi.org/10.4025/dialogos.v24i1.51952
Número
Vol. 24 Núm. 1 (2020): Movilidades humanas internacionales, transcontinentales e intrarregionales: biopoder, estrategias migrantes y representaciones (siglos XIX-XXI)
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Dosier

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