American Culture: An Anthology of Civilization TextsAnders Breidlid American Culture is an anthology of primary, documentary texts of American civilisation using excerpts from speeches, political addresses, articles, interviews, oral histories, autobiographies, advertisements and song lyrics. Edited by academics who are highly experienced in the study and teaching of American Studies across a wide range of institutions, this volume provides: * a wide range of texts that introduce the students to various sides of American society in an historical perspective: its regions, immigration, social structure, ethnic groups, ideology, religion and popular culture * primary sources of American life that students themselves can subject to cultural analysis and discussions in class * linking text arranged thematically * a means of seeing and understanding the ways in which language and culture are closely related, enabling students to integrate the study of culture and language and develop a combination of linguistic and cultural analytical skills. |
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Contents
Thomas Jefferson | 7 |
Seattle | 13 |
Buffy SainteMarie | 20 |
Leslie Silko | 22 |
IMMIGRATION | 33 |
AFRICAN AMERICANS | 71 |
Malcolm X | 89 |
WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES | 97 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 238 |
Billy Graham | 251 |
EDUCATION | 263 |
John Dewey | 269 |
US Congressmen | 275 |
Allan Bloom | 282 |
Studs Terkel | 290 |
New York Herald | 298 |
Betty Friedan | 115 |
Frederick Jackson Turner | 118 |
National NOW Times Editorial | 129 |
Andrew Jackson | 133 |
James Madison | 144 |
PARTIES AND POLITICS | 161 |
ENTERPRISE | 169 |
CLASS STRUCTURE | 209 |
Lyndon B Johnson | 223 |
Studs Terkel | 309 |
Martin Scorsese Paul Schrader and Robert de Niro | 315 |
THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD | 323 |
Lyndon B Johnson | 349 |
William James | 362 |
William J Clinton | 375 |
Theodore Roosevelt | 377 |
Suggested further reading | 399 |
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