The Many Identity Markers of Luso-Americans: Linguistic and Psychological Identities among First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Portuguese-Americans

: In this work, I shall look at how some communities of Luso-Americans across the United States use (or rather, feel about) the Portuguese language and mores and, as generations go by, negotiate Portuguese traditions in order to maintain, (re)create, and enhance their ties to their (lost or distant) Lusitanian heritage.1 I am particularly interested in how these hyphenated Americans leverage their ethnic, linguistic, racial, and psychological identities within multicultural, multiracial, and multilingual America.