Understanding “American culture” as the interplay of material practices and the realm of ideas

The Undergraduate degree program in American Studies considers technology, economy, urbanism, and ecology, as well as literature, the arts, and political and geographic history. American Studies takes a particular interest in cultural hybridity, cultural layering, and in American culture exported abroad.

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Spotlight on American Studies Graduates

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Neha Goel

Neha Goel : - From East to West, Whiteness Is the Best: A Cultural Analysis of How South Asians Attain Social Status in America (Class of 2015)
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Claire Rider

Community Gardens in Berkeley and Albany, CA; The Sociopolitical Benefits that Maintain Community Spaces in Affluent Neighborhoods
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Ava Eleanor Olson

An American Happy Ending: Sex, Sickness, and Sin During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Emma Pearl Gerson

Click Here to Find God: Incels, Internet Individualism, and American Intimacy

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