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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
Michele Wallace
Culture; American culture
(born 1953) African American feminist scholar first noted for Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, her 1979 study of the effects of sexism and racism on African American women. Much criticized ...
Cornel West
Culture; American culture
(born 1953) Considered by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who brought him to Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies program in 1994, the pre-eminent African American intellectual of our time. Author of ...
Louise Erdrich
Culture; American culture
(born 1954) Born of a Chippewa Indian mother and German American father, Erdrich grew up in North Dakota and earned a degree in anthropology from Dartmouth in 1976. Her first book, Love Medicine ...
Denzel Washington
Culture; American culture
(born 1954) Television and movie actor of the 1980s and 1990s. Washington’s first movie role, Carbon Copy (1981), was followed by a stint as the resident Dr Chandler on NBC’s doctor show St Elsewhere ...
Sandra Cisneros
Culture; American culture
(born 1954) The daughter of a Mexican American mother and Mexican father, Sandra Cisneros grew up in poverty and spent much of her childhood moving back and forth between Mexco City and Chicago, IL. ...
Oprah Winfrey
Culture; American culture
(born 1954) Through her talk show, syndicated since 1986, and her active production company Winfrey has become one of the most influential and wealthy African Americans in history with a power to ...
Bill Gates/Microsoft
Culture; American culture
(born 1955) Born in Seattle to a prominent family Gates attended Harvard University with the intention of becoming a lawyer like his father, although at age thirteen he was already working on his ...
