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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architecture

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The International Style exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1932 is often cited as the beginning of modernism in America. Curated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the ...

yuppies

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Young upwardly-mobile professionals became both models and targets as baby boomers met the affluence of the Reagan years. The epithet makes ironic reference to preppies (a middle-class buttondown ...

sharecroppers

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Southern tenant farmers who rented land and supplies from landlords in return for substantial portions of their crops. This could be half in the case of a farmer who had no mules or tools; in ...

frontier

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Throughout the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the American frontier—the mobile line of settlement—moved from the Eastern Seaboard to the West Coast. In 1890 the US Census Department ...

racial profiling

Culture; American culture

Use of phenotypical characteristics to determine police intervention, loosely based on potential associations with likely criminal behavior. The overwhelming tendency of state troopers in New Jersey ...

ice hockey

Culture; American culture

Sport developed in Canada during the nineteenth century The name of its most prestigious prize, the Stanley Cup, derives from the governor-general who donated the bowl to the hockey league. Hockey ...

language

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While the United States is an English-speaking nation, no official government pronouncement confirmed this—at least until the English-Only campaigns of the 1980s forced this upon state legislatures. ...