Defining American National Identity: An Exploration into Measurement and Its Outcomes.
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. In addition to this apparent contradiction, these studies share similar m...
| Publicado en: | Nationalities Papers Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 3 - 22 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jan2024
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