Sahana Mukherjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sahana Mukherjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sahana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukherjee |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHERJEE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gettysburg College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0515-7715 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
All Americans are Not Perceived as “True” Americans
The United States is a nation of immigrants with significant ethnic and racial diversity. Yet, American identity is associated with European-Americans and their cultural values, defining ethnic minorities as less American. Experiences of identity denial are associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes, as well as lower political and civic engagement. Perceptions of prototypical American-ness link to a wide range of social policy a…
Songs of Dissent and Consciousness
Bauls, the wandering minstrels of rural Bengal (of both Bangladesh and India), are a socio-religiously marginalized cultural group. While the ritualistic practices and spiritual discourses of the Bauls have received scholarly attention, scholarship on Bauls' songs about material and communicative adversities and their emancipatory visions is lacking. Bauls' performances and discourses are precursors to envisioning alternative emancipatory possibi…
What does it mean to be American? Perceptions of national identity amongst adults and children
RaShThe Bullet Train and Other Loaded Poems
on his head / grabs frames from the darkness ,” Kates’s choice not to use the English word “headlamp” keeps the Russian end-line emphasis on “head,” and the “flash” in “flashlight ” reinforces the sense of photographic sight. Often multilayered and dark—“Earth, dying on the eve of winter / responds to the touch like a cold corpse”—in these poems there is also a sense of possibility: “We will die and wake up as someone else, / . . . surviving our …
A cultural psychological analysis of collective memory as mediated action
The present research applies a cultural psychological perspective on collective memory as mediated action to examine how constructions of a national past serve as tools that both reflect and shape national identity concerns. We employ a situation-sampling method to investigate collective memory in a series of studies concerning intergroup relations in the Indian context. In Study 1, participants (N = 55) generated three historical events that the…
Support for Tough Immigration Policy
Across two studies, U.S. participants read a fictional transcript of a law enforcement officer who observed a speeding infraction and made a discretionary traffic stop. The car carried occupants who displayed either high or low fit with Anglocentric constructions of U.S. identity and were of presumptive Mexican (Studies 1 and 2), Canadian (Study 1), or Irish (Study 2) origin. The officer decided over the course of the traffic stop that the occupa…
Acculturation
Acculturation has historically focused on how cultural change occurs when people from different cultural backgrounds come into contact to seek ways to negotiate roles, with the possibility of one or both cultures changing. This entry provides an overview of early conceptualizations of acculturation and common frameworks most utilized in acculturation research today. Specific strategies/categories of acculturation and the outcomes that may occur a…
Contact Hypothesis
The contact hypothesis proposes that contact between individuals of different groups (e.g., race, gender, religion) can lead to lower levels of prejudice. In particular, when contact occurs under certain optimal conditions (e.g., cooperative interdependence, equal status between groups), then it is likely that prejudice reduction will occur. The specification of the conditions under which group contact is likely to reduce prejudice has been one o…
Gender Asymmetry in the Construction of American National Identity
Dominant groups (e.g., White U.S. citizens) are more associated with “American” identity and they feel greater ownership over American national identity compared to ethnic minority groups. We extended this perception to gender and tested whether American national identity is constructed in masculine, versus feminine, terms. We examined whether U.S. men feel greater symbolic ownership over the nation and represent what it means to be a prototypica…
Reasonable suspicion” about tough immigration legislation
We examined whether support for tough immigration legislation reflects identity-neutral enforcement of law or identity-relevant defense of privilege. Participants read a fabricated news story in which law-enforcement personnel detained a person due to "reasonable suspicion" that he was an undocumented immigrant. We manipulated descriptions of the detainee so that he was either (a) an undocumented immigrant (both studies), (b) a documented immigra…
Gender Asymmetry in the Construction of American National Identity
Dominant groups (e.g., White U.S. citizens) are more associated with “American” identity and they feel greater ownership over American national identity compared to ethnic minority groups. We extended this perception to gender and tested whether American national identity is constructed in masculine, versus feminine, terms. We examined whether U.S. men feel greater symbolic ownership over the nation and represent what it means to be a prototypica…
Reasonable suspicion” about tough immigration legislation
We examined whether support for tough immigration legislation reflects identity-neutral enforcement of law or identity-relevant defense of privilege. Participants read a fabricated news story in which law-enforcement personnel detained a person due to "reasonable suspicion" that he was an undocumented immigrant. We manipulated descriptions of the detainee so that he was either (a) an undocumented immigrant (both studies), (b) a documented immigra…
Support for Tough Immigration Policy
Across two studies, U.S. participants read a fictional transcript of a law enforcement officer who observed a speeding infraction and made a discretionary traffic stop. The car carried occupants who displayed either high or low fit with Anglocentric constructions of U.S. identity and were of presumptive Mexican (Studies 1 and 2), Canadian (Study 1), or Irish (Study 2) origin. The officer decided over the course of the traffic stop that the occupa…
A cultural psychological analysis of collective memory as mediated action
The present research applies a cultural psychological perspective on collective memory as mediated action to examine how constructions of a national past serve as tools that both reflect and shape national identity concerns. We employ a situation-sampling method to investigate collective memory in a series of studies concerning intergroup relations in the Indian context. In Study 1, participants (N = 55) generated three historical events that the…
What does it mean to be American? Perceptions of national identity amongst adults and children
Reasonable suspicion” about tough immigration legislation
We examined whether support for tough immigration legislation reflects identity-neutral enforcement of law or identity-relevant defense of privilege. Participants read a fabricated news story in which law-enforcement personnel detained a person due to "reasonable suspicion" that he was an undocumented immigrant. We manipulated descriptions of the detainee so that he was either (a) an undocumented immigrant (both studies), (b) a documented immigra…
Acculturation
Acculturation has historically focused on how cultural change occurs when people from different cultural backgrounds come into contact to seek ways to negotiate roles, with the possibility of one or both cultures changing. This entry provides an overview of early conceptualizations of acculturation and common frameworks most utilized in acculturation research today. Specific strategies/categories of acculturation and the outcomes that may occur a…
Contact Hypothesis
The contact hypothesis proposes that contact between individuals of different groups (e.g., race, gender, religion) can lead to lower levels of prejudice. In particular, when contact occurs under certain optimal conditions (e.g., cooperative interdependence, equal status between groups), then it is likely that prejudice reduction will occur. The specification of the conditions under which group contact is likely to reduce prejudice has been one o…
Gender Asymmetry in the Construction of American National Identity
Dominant groups (e.g., White U.S. citizens) are more associated with “American” identity and they feel greater ownership over American national identity compared to ethnic minority groups. We extended this perception to gender and tested whether American national identity is constructed in masculine, versus feminine, terms. We examined whether U.S. men feel greater symbolic ownership over the nation and represent what it means to be a prototypica…
A cultural psychological analysis of collective memory as mediated action
The present research applies a cultural psychological perspective on collective memory as mediated action to examine how constructions of a national past serve as tools that both reflect and shape national identity concerns. We employ a situation-sampling method to investigate collective memory in a series of studies concerning intergroup relations in the Indian context. In Study 1, participants (N = 55) generated three historical events that the…
Support for Tough Immigration Policy
Across two studies, U.S. participants read a fictional transcript of a law enforcement officer who observed a speeding infraction and made a discretionary traffic stop. The car carried occupants who displayed either high or low fit with Anglocentric constructions of U.S. identity and were of presumptive Mexican (Studies 1 and 2), Canadian (Study 1), or Irish (Study 2) origin. The officer decided over the course of the traffic stop that the occupa…
RaShThe Bullet Train and Other Loaded Poems
on his head / grabs frames from the darkness ,” Kates’s choice not to use the English word “headlamp” keeps the Russian end-line emphasis on “head,” and the “flash” in “flashlight ” reinforces the sense of photographic sight. Often multilayered and dark—“Earth, dying on the eve of winter / responds to the touch like a cold corpse”—in these poems there is also a sense of possibility: “We will die and wake up as someone else, / . . . surviving our …
What does it mean to be American? Perceptions of national identity amongst adults and children
All Americans are Not Perceived as “True” Americans
The United States is a nation of immigrants with significant ethnic and racial diversity. Yet, American identity is associated with European-Americans and their cultural values, defining ethnic minorities as less American. Experiences of identity denial are associated with negative mental and physical health outcomes, as well as lower political and civic engagement. Perceptions of prototypical American-ness link to a wide range of social policy a…
Songs of Dissent and Consciousness
Bauls, the wandering minstrels of rural Bengal (of both Bangladesh and India), are a socio-religiously marginalized cultural group. While the ritualistic practices and spiritual discourses of the Bauls have received scholarly attention, scholarship on Bauls' songs about material and communicative adversities and their emancipatory visions is lacking. Bauls' performances and discourses are precursors to envisioning alternative emancipatory possibi…
Psychology (8 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Ethnic group (4 works) · Identity (music (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works)