The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream: Volume 2

Cover
Half Title
Endorsements
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Preface
Contributors
1. Introduction: Theorizing The American Dream
PART I: Economic Success and Upward Economic Mobility and the American Dream
	2. In Pursuit of the Elusive American Dream: Black Woman Professionals
	3. Markets, Finance, Whiteness, and The American Dream
	4. Earning Rent with Your Talent: American Inequality Rests on The Power to Define, Transfer, and Institutionalize Talent
	5. From American Dream to Nordic Realities?
	6. Equality, Opportunity, and The American Dream
	7. What “American” Dream?: Contemporary Reflections
	8. Achieving The American Dream: How Middle Class Blacks Socialize Their Children to Make it to the Top
PART II: Contemporary Issues in American Dream Studies
	9. What (American) Dreams are Made of: Disney’s Fairy Tale Narratives
	10. How Free-Market Family Policy Crushed The American Dream
PART III: Migration and the Immigrant American Dream
	11. Twenty-First-Century African Immigrant View of The American Dream: Challenges and Opportunities
	12. The Boys From Little Mexico Redux: Dreaming the Immigrant Dream
PART IV: Marginalized Americans and the American Dream
	13. Incorporation and Disruption: What Fictional Narratives Reveal about the Realities of The American Dream
	14. The American Dream and Muslim Americans: (Im)possibilities and Realities of Pursuing the Dream
	15. Gay Neighborhoods: Reimagining the Traditional Conception of The American Dream
	16. The American Dream: Rhetoric of Opportunity and Reality of Exclusion
PART V: The American Dream Goes Global?
	17. “Good Living” and Immigrants in The Literature of Aleksandar Hemon: Toward the Humble Dream
PART VI: Sustainability and the American Dream
	18. A Dream Deferred: Professional Projects as Racial Projects in US Medicine
	19. Status Maintenance, Mobility, and The Persistence of Class Barriers to Achieving The American Dream
Index