The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream
Volume 2
Robert C Hauhart editor Mitja Sardoč editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Nov '22
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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 in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from a range of fields to further develop the themes and issues explored in the first volume.
The concept of the American Dream, first expounded by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America in 1931, is at once both ubiquitous and difficult to define. The term perfectly captures the hopes of freedom, opportunity and upward social mobility invested in the nation. However, the American Dream appears increasingly illusory in the face of widening inequality and apparent lack of opportunity, particularly for the poor and ethnic, or otherwise marginalized, minorities in the United States. As such, an understanding of the American Dream through both theoretical analyses and empirical studies, whether qualitative or quantitative, is crucial to understanding contemporary America.
Like the first volume of The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream, this collection will be of great interest to students and researchers in a range of fields in the humanities and social sciences.
The RoutledgeHandbook on the American Dream provides an excellent overview on the promises and pitfalls of one of the world's most powerful ideas and ideologies. A must-read for everyone interested in understanding the history and present of the United States.
Johannes Drerup, Professor of Education, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
There are few people in our globalized 21st century who have not heard of the American Dream. Fewer, however, have taken the opportunity to examine its meaning and fewer still its implications. The two volumes of Hauhart and Sardoč’s edited collection offer a comprehensive overview of what is an endlessly fascinating topic. Whether the reader is a historian, a professional in the social sciences or humanities, or simply a student inquiring into the American Dream, there is nowhere better to begin or continue one’s interest in the United States and its dominant cultural mythos than here.
Oto Luthar, Director of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia
ISBN: 9781032352961
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 802g
382 pages