RSA Journal Rivista di Studi Americani Journal of AISNA / Italian Association of North American Studies 20/2009 American Patchwork: Multi-Ethnicity in the United States Today Guest Editor, Marina Camboni Marina Camboni, Identities in Critical Times: Obama’s “Patchwork” and the “Melting Pot” 5 Giuliana Muscio, Spectacle of Identity: From the Lower East Side to Hollywood 29 Fedora Giordano, Notes on Contemporary Indian Identity 47 Paola Boi, “The Foreigner’s Home” and the Racial Self: Toni Morrison, the Body, and the Seduction of Writing 63 Forum Round Table on David Armitage: The Declaration of Independence Mario Del Pero, Introduction 79 Tiziano Bonazzi 80 David C. Hendrickson 85 Peter S. Onuf 89 Arnaldo Testi 94 David Armitage, A Reply to My Critics 99 Articles Daniele Fiorentino, Multiculturalism and the Legacy of Cultural Pluralism 111 Gabriele Rosso, The United States as a Microcosm: Horace Kallen and the Theory of Cultural Pluralism 127 L’inedito Marina Camboni, Alicia Suskin Ostriker and the Politics of Poetry 145 Alicia Suskin Ostriker, “Ghazal: America,” “Banquet,” “What the Butterfly is Thinking” 148