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While American images of China have been characterized by a fluctuating love/hate relationship, many educated urban Chinese youths also retained ambivalent feelings toward the United States in the early decades of the 20th century.

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Explores the dynamics of television, identity, and cultural communication, providing a lens for encountering, interpreting, and judging American culture and the American identity.

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Exploring the dynamics of television, identity, and cultural communication, this work provides a lens for encountering, interpreting, and judging American culture and the American identity.

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From the Model T to today's "lean manufacturing": the assembly line as crucial, yet controversial, agent of social and economic transformation.

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The melting pot is a myth, according to Fernandez. The United States is and always has been a banquet of cultures. Thus, he argues, the best way to deal with the millions of new immigrants is to accept, recognize, and eagerly explore the differences among the American people.

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Secondly, the nation's many ethnic groups offer a way to erase the black/white dichotomy which, masks the shared injustices of millions of European, Asian, African, Native, and Latino Americans.

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Explores the moral terrain of America, analyzing the widely held perception that the nation is in moral decline. This book looks at the question from a variety of angles, examining traditional values, secular values, religious values, family values, economic values, and others.

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A powerful look at the real America, dominated by America's "forgotten majority" - white working-class men and women who make up 55 percent of the voting population.

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As entertainers, corporations, and even the government pander to the lowest common denominator, American life becomes increasingly vicarious, prefabricated, and bereft of meaning.

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Centers on women and children living in shelters and offers a sociological study of poverty and the family.

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Highly recommended to academic libraries with programs in sociology, social work, local politics, and urban history, and to all urban public libraries. The organizational activities included in this volume focus on the geographical community rather than on issue-oriented activities;

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These essays examine the proliferation of American culture in Europe and focus on the degree and manner in which American cultural influences are spread. Topics range from German advertising in the 1980s to US influence in post-Soviet Russian to Greek youth's fascination with American commercial culture.

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Chronicles the struggles of immigrants who have fled their homelands in search of a better life in the United States, only to be marginalized by the society that they hoped would embrace them. This book argues that marginalization fosters antagonism within ethnic groups while undermining the ethnic solidarity emphasized by scholars of immigration.

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A fascinating survey of American food trends that highlights the key inventions, brands, restaurant chains, and individuals that shaped the American diet and palate in the 20th century.

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Explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.

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With 50 percent new material, this third edition breaks this complex topic into key elements, examining the roots of the problem, programs that address it, current research, and public perceptions of homelessness.

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This one-volume reference contends that reshaping the paradigm of American Indian identity, blood quantum, and racial distinctions can positively impact the future of the Indian community within America and America itself.

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For the first time, American Indian leadership theory is connected with practice. Featuring 24 perspectives, this book provides the most comprehensive look at contemporary American Indian leadership ever published.