On this page you will find links to entries that address the clashes and/or interactions with "other" social groups, nations, and entities--both within and outside the geographic boundaries of the nation--that have helped to shape the mainstream, or dominant, "American" identity. Entries will not necessarily take that "dominant identity" as the sum total of "American identity" and may seek to trouble the notion that there is a single, unitary "American identity" or that said identity is reducible to the collective identity of the citizens of United States.