O sonho americano: imigração e formação de identidade cultural nos Estados Unidos

  • Mimi Yang Carthage College

Abstract

Este artigo confronta a identidade americana monoculturalista e postula uma identidade multicultural e multirracial, moldada pela história da imigração. Além disso, ele disseca o sonho americano sob a lente de imigrantes WASPs e não-WASPs, particularmente em meados do século XIX. Ao correlacionar a dualidade cultural e a dupla consciência por meio de WASPs, imigrantes, nativistas e culturalistas afro-americanos, o artigo afirma uma identidade cultural americana maleável e em evolução, constantemente (re) moldada por ondas sucessivas de imigrantes.

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Biografia autore

Mimi Yang, Carthage College

Full Professor (PhD) of Modern Languages at Carthage College, Wisconsin (USA). She is the author of the book Tricultural Personality (Chinese, English, Spanish): A Cross-Cultural Paradigm (Edwin Mellen, 2014). Trained as Latin Americanist (at University of Arizona), she has published extensively in both English and Spanish on themes related to Latin American postmodernism, cultural identity, poetry, visual arts, and language teaching pedagogy. Dr. Yang is the recipient of the Wisconsin Global Educator Award at the level of higher education in 2004. She has lived, studied, and worked in the English, Spanish and Chinese speaking worlds.

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Pubblicato
2020-03-04
Come citare
Yang, M. (2020). O sonho americano: imigração e formação de identidade cultural nos Estados Unidos. Dialogos, 24(1), 178-226. https://doi.org/10.4025/dialogos.v24i1.51952