American culture

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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tipping

Culture; American culture

A tip of 15–20 percent added on to pre-tax bills for restaurants, hotels, beauty salons, taxis and other services hardly seems an extraordinary surcharge in a global economy. Yet, for many workers, ...

literature and gender

Culture; American culture

A variety of approaches to the topic of women and literature has emerged in the last thirty years as Women’s Studies has solidified and expanded as an academic field, building on the earlier work of ...

awards

Culture; American culture

Academy Awards set the tone, in terms of recognition, ceremony and glamour, for many media awards that now annually recognize both excellence and box-office receipts. These awards, especially as ...

outing

Culture; American culture

According to Larry Gross in Contested Closets (1993), “outing” actually coincides with the nineteenthcentury introduction of the homosexual and, thus, the homosexual closet. Since then, impulses to ...

credit and credit cards

Culture; American culture

According to the Federal Reserve Board, outstanding consumer credit has soared from $6,577.8 million in January 1943 to $1,370,880 million in October 1999. Much of this increase has come in revolving ...

Christian music

Culture; American culture

Accounting for a small fraction of American music sales, Christian music exists at the margins of the music business. For example, most religious albums are sold not at record stores but through ...

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Culture; American culture

Act passed by Congress, at President Johnson’s behest, following the attack by state troopers and white extremists on Martin Luther King, Jr. and civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama. King had ...