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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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American culture
James Ellroy
Culture; American culture
(born 1948) Novelist and memoirist, darker than noir. Ellroy has been the obsessive investigator and recreator of 1950s Los Angeles, CA—violent, verbal, dominated by sex and power, in novels like The ...
Leslie Marmon Silko
Culture; American culture
(born 1948) Poet and novelist of mixed Native American, Mexican and Euro-American parentage, raised on the Pueblo Indian reservation. Her novels have explored the oral traditions of the Laguna ...
Albert Gore Jr.
Culture; American culture
(born 1948) Son of the distinguished Democratic Party senator from Tennessee, Gore grew up between Washington, DC and Carthage, Tennessee before attending Harvard and enlisting for service in ...
Bruce Springsteen
Culture; American culture
(born 1949) Coming of age in the late 1960s, Bruce Springsteen reflects the musical and social influences of the time, combining social critique of the folk tradition with the exuberance of rock ’n’ ...
Whoopi Goldberg
Culture; American culture
(born 1949) Female actor and comedian who often has tackled issues of race and class. She gained screen prominence for her debut as the suffering Celie in The Color Purple (1985), although she won an ...
John Sayles
Culture; American culture
(born 1950) As a film-maker, John Sayles has often been drawn to historical subjects, which he uses to illustrate injustice (racial, ethnic, gender and class), as well as the sheer complexity of ...
Gloria Naylor
Culture; American culture
(born 1950) Born in New York City, NY of Southern migrant parents, Gloria Naylor grew up within the community of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Influenced by Toni Morrison, Naylor wrote her first novel, The ...
