Introduction to American Culture -- Chapter 1. American Ethnocentrism & the Myth of American Exceptionalism -- Chapter 2. Native Roots -- The Second Wounded Knee 1973 -- Chapter 3. Latinos, Hispanics, Chicanos, Tejanos, and Nuyoricans -- Texas -- California -- Puerto Rico -- Cuba -- An American Hero, Cesar Chavez -- Chapter 4. African-American Culture -- Malcolm X -- Muhammad Ali -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Chapter 5. Asian-Americans -- Daniel Inouye, an American Hero -- Asian-American Religion -- Asian-American Contributions: Physics, Food and Health -- War and Pieces -- The Hmong -- Chapter 6. The European-Americans -- The British -- Benjamin Franklin -- Thomas Jefferson -- The Germans -- The American German Bund, Charles Lindbergh, and Father Coughlin -- Lucky Lindy, Not So Lucky and Not So Great? -- The American Fuhrer -- Irish-Americans -- Italian-Americans -- Italian-American Cuisine -- The French -- Polish-Americans -- Russian-Americans -- The Dutch in America -- The Scandinavians: Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns -- Gus Hall -- Famous Scandinavians in America -- Minnesota, a Scandinavian Regional Sub-Culture -- Other European Americans -- Chapter 7. Canadian-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Polynesians and Mixed Races -- Canadian-Americans -- Jewish-Americans -- Polynesians -- American Samoa -- Mixed Race -- Black Indians -- Chapter 8. The American Language -- Chapter 9. American Religion and Belief Systems -- American Religious Bias -- The KKK and Other Religious Intolerance -- American Religious Extremism -- The Revivalist Movement -- Black Supremacy Religious Movements -- Jim Jones, Moonies, and the Branch Davidians -- Other Religious Organizations -- American Christian Fundamentalists Against Science -- Religious and Conservative Denial of Climate Change -- Atheists, Agnostics and Humanists -- Chapter 10. Regional Cultures.

Chapter 11. The 1950s -- The Decline of the Cities -- Chapter 12. Bohemians, Beatniks, Hippies, and the 1960s Counter­Culture -- The Myth of the Me Generation -- Rock & Roll -- Drugs -- Feminism and the Sexual Revolution -- Chapter 13. Radio & Television -- Radio Days -- Television -- The Sitcom -- Children's Shows -- Chapter 14. The Theatre & Movies -- Hollywood and the Movies -- Chapter 15. Literacy, Education and Literature -- American Colleges & Universities -- The Rise and Fall of American Education -- American Literature -- Chapter 16. Blues and Jazz -- The Blues -- Jazz -- Chapter 17. American Gun Culture -- The National Rifle Association -- Chapter 18. American Military Culture -- False Idol Worship -- The Chicken Hawks and Lies Leading to Unnecessary Wars -- Homeland Security -- Chapter 19. American Oil Culture -- American Car Culture -- Chapter 20. Class & Culture -- Class Traits -- Republicans and the Christian Right, the Politics of Xenophobia -- Chapter 21. Immigration, Migration and Mobility -- American Mobility and Internal Migrations -- Chapter 22. American Cyber Culture -- Chapter 23. The American Cult of Personality -- Chapter 24. American Economics and the Religion of Capitalism -- Southern Culture, Politics & Economics -- Milton Friedman and the Chicago School -- Chapter 25. Anti-Communism-The Ultimate in American Xenophobia -- Chapter 26. Conclusions from American Culture -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index -- _MailEndCompose -- Page_229.