The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream Volume 1 1st Edition by Robert C Hauhart, Mitja Sardoč 9781000385526 1000385523

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• ISBN 10: 1000385523
• ISBN 13: 9781000385526
• Author: Robert C Hauhart, Mitja Sardoč 

What do we mean by the American dream? Can we define it? Or does any discussion of the phrase end inconclusively, the solid turned liquid—like ice melting? Do we know whether the American dream motivates and inspires or, alternately, obscures and deceives? The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream offers distinctive, authoritative, original essays by well-known scholars that address the social, economic, historical, philosophic, legal, and cultural dimensions of the American dream for the twenty-first century. The American dream, first discussed and defined in print by James Truslow Adams’s The Epic of America (1931), has become nearly synonymous with being American. Adams’s definition, although known to scholars, is often lost in our ubiquitous use of the term. When used today, the iconic phrase seems to encapsulate every fashion, fad, trend, association, or image the user identifies with the United States or American life. The American dream’s ubiquity, though, argues eloquently for a deeper understanding of its heritage, its implications, and its impact—to be found in this first research handbook ever published on the topic.

Table contents:

1 Introduction: What Is the American Dream?
Part I Economic Success, Upward Economic Mobility and the American Dream
2 Racial Capitalism and (Im)Mobility: Asian Americans in the Contemporary Economy
3 Gendered Street Capitalism and the Violence of the American Dream
4 The Mirage of Meritocracy and the Morality of Grace
5 Hegemony and Interpellation: The Ideological Functions of the American Dream
6 Paradise for Whom? Rural Inequality and the Elusive American Dream
7 Is the Nordic Model More Compatible with the American Dream Than Present-Day United States?
Part II Contemporary Issues in American Dream Studies
8 The Random Factor: Chance, Luck, and the American Dream
9 The Feminist American Dream
Part III Migration and the Immigrant American Dream
10 Migration and the American Dream
11 Post-1965 Immigrants, African Americans, and the Limits of the American Dream
12 Crime and the American Dream in a Nation of Immigrants
Part IV Marginalized Americans and the American Dream
13 Poor but Still Dreaming
14 The American Dream, Latinx, and the US Mass Media in the 21st Century
15 Queer Youth and the American Dream
Part V The American Dream Goes Global?
16 Exporting the American Dream: Global Implications
17 The Chinese Dream, the Wuhan Nightmare, and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory
18 Why Is There No European Dream?
Part VI Sustainability and the American Dream
19 Using Cargo Cult Movements to Explain the Persistent Appeal of the American Dream

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