Who is really “American”?

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People from North, South and Central America discuss the use of the term “American” as an identifier by people from the United States. "Americans" have a linguistic ideology about what it means to be one and seem to ignore the fact that it excludes people from all other regions in the Americas.

Posted by Allison Maxfield on September 26, 2016

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Ideology;
Indexicality;
Power;
Semantics

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