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The social heritage and customs of an organized community,society or ethnic group.
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queer
Culture; American culture
“Queer” emerged as a politically charged term around the time that AIDS politics gathered urgent momentum. With the advent of such groups as ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash ...
tourism
Culture; American culture
“See the USA in your Chevrolet!” Mass tourism in the postwar era has been mediated by the hegemony of the automobile that had emerged earlier in the century and by cheap mass ...
lynching
Culture; American culture
“Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees,” sang Billie Holliday in 1939 about the hanging and torture of African American males (generally) by mob violence, often in the ...
tabloids
Culture; American culture
“Tabloids” generally refers to any paper produced in the tabloid format, that is, relatively smaller than conventional “broadsheets” and without physically separate sections. For ...
superheroes
Culture; American culture
Television in the 1950s gave us the image of a muscle-bound superman standing in front of the American flag, committed to “truth, justice and the American way.” In the late ...
black conservatives
Culture; American culture
Until recently African American intellectuals were assumed to be liberal and aligned with the Democratic Party. The 1980s witnessed the emergence of black intellectuals Thomas ...
sports cars
Culture; American culture
The combination of America’s love affair with the automobile, vast highways and ideals of individualism seem to make the nation a natural habitat for automobiles defined by the ...
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