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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
Carlos Castañeda
Culture; American culture
(1931 – 1998) While a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Casteneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge (1968), which ...
Donald Barthelme
Culture; American culture
(born 1931); d: 1989 Barthelme became well known thanks to his innovative short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker. A literary postmodernist who argued that collage was the art form of ...
Andrew Young
Culture; American culture
(born 1932) A Georgia clergy member when the Civil Rights movement began to spread around the South. Young became active in crusades from Birmingham, Alabama, to St. Augustine, Florida. Increasingly ...
Elizabeth Taylor
Culture; American culture
(born 1932) Academy Award-winning film actor. Although British-born, Taylor at the peak of her celebrated career was the definitive American movie goddess. Her lavish lifestyle and her unabashed ...
Johnny Cash
Culture; American culture
(born 1932) Cash wrote songs, poems and stories after working with his parents growing cotton. As an adult, he became one of the most important American storytellers, expanding country music by ...
Mario Cuomo
Culture; American culture
Mario Matthew Cuomo, (June 15, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American politician and the Democratic governor of the State of New York from 1983 to 1994. An unapologetic liberal, Cuomo’s fiery ...
Dick Gregory
Culture; American culture
(born 1932) Gregory’s acid racial observations made an early crossover breakthrough in American comedy in 1961 via the Playboy Club and late-night television. Yet his celebrity converged with his ...
