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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sports and gender

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Radical changes have occurred in women’s sports in the United States, especially in the last two decades, having a lasting impact on many aspects of American culture and society. While women have not ...

radio chains

Culture; American culture

Radio chains or groups represent an increasing portion of American radio ownership. Group ownership affects a market’s programming, advertising revenues, technological capabilities and hiring, both ...

Amos’n Andy

Culture; American culture

Radio serial, relying on white minstrelsy that came to early CBS television (1951–3) with African American actors Alvin Childress and Spencer Williams, before being driven from the air by NAACP ...

consumer safety

Culture; American culture

Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at Any Speed (1965) warned Americans that many “things” could kill as surely as people. Freedom to consume entails risks which have become hotly debated in the litigious ambience ...

ranching

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Ranching is the grazing of livestock over grasslands where animals may roam or feed; cattle ranching is the dominant range industry in the US. Ranching is associated with the sparsely populated West ...

Pentecostalism

Culture; American culture

Rather than designating a single denomination, modern American Pentecostalism generally refers to Christian traditions that emphasize supernatural signs or “gifts of the Holy Spirit”—embodied in ...

movies ratings

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Ratings provide a form of self-censorship that the media industries apply after pressure from the public and the government. The Hollywood Production Code of the 1930s was negotiated to handle issues ...