The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2

ISBN-13: 9781032352961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 448 str.

Hauhart, Robert C.

Opis

The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2 explores the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the American Dream in both theory and reality. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume.

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1. Introduction: Theorizing the American Dream  Part I: Economic Success and Upward Economic Mobility and the American Dream  2. In Pursuit of the Elusive American Dream: Black Woman Professionals  3. Markets, Finance, Whiteness, and the American Dream  4. Earning Rent with Your Talent: American Inequality Rests on the Power to Define, Transfer and Institutionalize Talent  5. From American Dream to Nordic Realities?  6. Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream  7. What "American" dream? Contemporary reflections  8. Achieving the American Dream: How Middle Class Blacks Socialize Their Children to Make It to the Top  Part II: Contemporary Issues in American Dream Studies  9. What (American) Dreams are made of: Disney’s Fairy Tale Narratives  10. How Free-Market Family Policy Crushed the American Dream  Part III: Migration and the Immigrant American Dream  11. A Twenty-First Century African Immigrant View of the American Dream’s Challenges and Opportunities  12. The Boys from Little Mexico Redux: Dreaming the Immigrant Dream  Part IV: Marginalized Americans and the American Dream  13. Incorporation and Disruption: What Fictional Narratives Can Tell Us About the Realities of the American Dream  14. The American Dream and Muslim Americans: (Im)Possibilities and Realities of Pursuing the Dream  15. Gay Neighborhoods: Reimagining the Traditional Conception of the American Dream  16. The American Dream: Rhetoric of Opportunity and Reality of Exclusion  Part V: The American Dream Goes Global?  17. "Good Living" and Immigrants in the Literature of Aleksandar Hemon: Towards the Humble Dream  Part VI: Sustainability and the American Dream  18. A Dream Deferred: Professional Projects as Racial Projects in US Medicine  19. Status Maintenance, Mobility, and the Persistence of Class Barriers to Achieving the American Dream