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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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pizza
Culture; American culture
Circular bread crust with tomato, cheese and other toppings adapted from Italian sources (New Haven, Connecticut claims priority) has become a ubiquitous American meal. Strong regional variations ...
mayors
Culture; American culture
Cities are units of taxation, representation, service and identity. All these demand governance, which, since the American Revolution, has been vested in locally elected officials at City Hall. Over ...
Texas
Culture; American culture
Citizens of Texas often say Texas is not a state, but a state of mind. Perhaps no other state has been represented more in popular culture than Texas—yet stereotypes of the oil baron, cowboy, ...
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Culture; American culture
Civil-rights organization formed in 1960, following the success of the sit-ins. Ella Baker, executive director of SCLC, convened a group of student activists at Shaw University in Raleigh, NC. ...
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Culture; American culture
Civil-rights organization founded in 1942 by several white students at the University of Chicago, along with black activists like James Farmer. CORE drew its inspiration from methods Gandhi employed ...
etiquette
Culture; American culture
Class and status anxiety in an apparently egalitarian society have created ample opportunity for social advisors to judge correct behavior, especially with regard to formal ritual occasions like ...
city and country clubs
Culture; American culture
Clubs emerged as elite meeting places in the nineteenth century along the male, upperclass and highly segregated lines of comparable British institutions. Some of these, ensconced in landmark ...
