Format:
1 online resource (268 pages)
ISBN:
9781628940503
Content:
American culture is a rich and complex tapestry of colorful threads from at least five continents, and in recent decades increased immigration has meant that the pace of change is accelerating. It's time for us to get to know ourselves and really appreciate this rich, vast, and rapidly expanding culture. This book explores the contributions of Hispanic, Black, Native American, Oriental, Jewish and other cultures to a nation where many people still focus on the influences of Christian, capitalist, and ethnically European (particularly British) heritage.
Content:
Intro -- Introduction to American Culture -- Chapter 1. American Ethnocentrism & the Myth of American Exceptionalism -- Chapter 2. Native Roots -- The Second Wounded Knee 1973 -- Chapter 3. Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos, Tejanos, and Nuyoricans -- Texas -- California -- Puerto Rico -- Cuba -- An American Hero, Cesar Chavez -- Chapter 4. African-American Culture -- Malcolm X -- Muhammad Ali -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Chapter 5. Asian-Americans -- Daniel Inouye, an American Hero -- Asian-American Religion -- Asian-American Contributions: Physics, Food and Health -- War and Pieces -- The Hmong -- Chapter 6. The European-Americans -- The British -- Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Germans -- The American German Bund, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin -- Lucky Lindy, Not So Lucky and Not So Great? -- The American Fuhrer -- Irish-Americans -- Italian-Americans -- Italian-American Cuisine -- The French -- Polish-Americans -- Russian-Americans -- The Dutch in America -- The Scandinavians: Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns -- Gus Hall -- Famous Scandinavians in America -- Minnesota, a Scandinavian Regional Sub-Culture -- Other European Americans -- Chapter 7. Canadian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Polynesians and Mixed Races -- Canadian-Americans -- Jewish-Americans -- Polynesians -- American Samoa -- Mixed Race -- Black Indians -- Chapter 8. The American Language -- Chapter 9. American Religion and Belief Systems -- American Religious Bias -- The KKK and Other Religious Intolerance -- American Religious Extremism -- The Revivalist Movement -- Black Supremacy Religious Movements -- Jim Jones, Moonies, and the Branch Davidians -- Other Religious Organizations -- American Christian Fundamentalists Against Science -- Religious and Conservative Denial of Climate Change -- Atheists, Agnostics and Humanists.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781628940480
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781628940480
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1771458
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