Alexandra Kingston-Reese, Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life by Ian Ellison

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One Out of Many: The Civic and Religious in American Muslim Life by R. David Coolidge

“…Through examining examples of how Muslims engage with the American economic and legal system, it is shown that much of one’s engagement with the civic structures of American life is seen as unproblematic. Understanding this distinction helps Muslims participating in American life to properly conceptualize the relationship between their religious faith and their roles as citizens in the larger body politic.…”
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Moral Theology and Guns in the United States: Staging an Encounter by Michael R. Grigoni, Cory D. Mitchell

“…Guns hold a vexingly unique place in US American life. The United States has, by far, the highest prevalence of private firearm ownership and firearm-caused death among high-income nations in the world. …”
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The Hollow Men. By Michael Gold. New York: International The Hollow Men. By Michael Gold. New York: International by Dilvo Ilvo Ristoff

“…As with the articles, the book poses the following question: Can literary renegades destroy the great emocratic tradition of American life and literature? Gold's answer is a clear "no," but his answer, nevertheless, dramatizes the obstacles faces by the democratic forces, especially during the 1920s and 30s. …”
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The Politics of Immigration: Introduction to a Special Issue on US Immigration by Jonathon W. Moses

“…In reading this special issue we gain a remarkably insightful glimpse of the important role that immigration policy has played, and will continue to play, in several important aspects of contemporary American life.  After eight years of the Bush Administration, a new immigration policy is poised to rise again from the ashes of the infamous Sensenbrenner Bill.1  A fresh political and economic context ensures this.  …”
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Agere Contra: An "Ignatian Option" for Engagement with American Society and Culture by Benjamin T. Peters

“…Next, I suggest an alternative approach to social engagement that is rooted in Ignatian spirituality, one that is neither a wholesale withdrawal from nor blanket embrace of American life. Finally, I highlight some of figures who seem to embody this “Ignatian option,” in particular Dorothy Day and Pope Francis.…”
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Are Trade Unions and Their Members “Populist”? by Nelson Lichtenstein

“…Little of this is true of political campaigns and social insurgencies, including those of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, which have played such a prominent role in recent American life. A survey of some recent U.S. strikes, including those of blue-collar whites in heavy industry and white-collar teachers of multicultural hue, demonstrates the validity of this thesis.…”
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‘Wheels of Tragedy’: Death on the Highways in Carnival of Souls (1962) and the Highway Safety Film by Bernice M. Murphy

“…It directly confronts one of the most pervasive taboos in modern American life: the horrific death toll associated with mass automobility. …”
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Maintaining a Complex Building Culture: The Precarious State of Heritage Crafts in the United States by Stephen Hartley

“…Through those immigrant traditions, it studies the desire for assimilation into American life through successive generations transitioning away from building craft. …”
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The Cultural Appropriation of Buddha in American Advertisements by Jiemin Bao, William M. Willis

“…Buddha-branded advertisements are shaped by American cultural principles, and in return, the advertisements reshape various facets of identity and everyday American life. …”
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‘Policing Is a Profession of the Heart’: Evangelicalism and Modern American Policing by Aaron Griffith

“…It argues that, in their entries into debates about law enforcement’s purpose in American life, evangelicals frame policing as both a divinely sanctioned activity and a site of sentimental engagement. …”
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From Principle to Policy to Practice? Diversity as a Driver of Multicultural, Stakeholder Engagement in Public Relations by Dean E. Mundy

“…A 2005 report issued by the PR Coalition called on public relations to take a leadership role in strengthening the importance of diversity in American life. These findings suggest that practitioners still support that role, but there remains a steep disconnect between the importance of diversity in public relations and what that means in everyday practice. …”
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The African American Church House: A Phenomenological Inquiry of an Afrocentric Sacred Space by Christopher Hunter

“…The design and construction of black church houses provided enslaved as well as free persons of color the opportunity to physically create buildings that would become the center of African American life, beginning as early as the late 18th century and reaching to the present. …”
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Media Review: 'My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and Mending Our Hearts and Bodies,' by Resmaa Menakem by Wendy Whelihan

“…My Grandmother’s Hands addresses racialized trauma in contemporary American life, positing that our innate capacity for healing trauma lives in the bodies of individuals, and can be spread within families and through communities. …”
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The impact of the railroad on American society: a communication perspective of technology by Matusitz, Jonathan

“…This manuscript examines the railroad system as a combination of humans and machines that form a symbiosis, and explains how the railroad exerted a huge effect on American life when it made irrelevant the organic – following nature – time system that existed in cities and countries where clocks were set according to weather conditions. …”
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African American Social Networking Online: Applying a Digital Practice Approach to Understanding Digital Inequalities by Danielle Taana Smith

“…The data for this research comes from the Pew Internet and American Life’s “Spring Tracking Survey 2008”. The results from regression analyses support the digital practice framework which moves discussions of ICT usage beyond social and economic advantages or disadvantages, and addresses individual and group needs in using these technologies.…”
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“You Can Really Make the Story Your Own”: Taking Back <i>Candyman</i> by Marco Petrelli

“…In the 2021 film, <i>Candyman</i> rewrites the story of the original, disrupts its stereotypical representation of Blackness, and appropriates the horror genre to give voice to the peculiar anxieties of contemporary African American life. In so doing, DaCosta’s film also challenges classic gothic tropes of horrific Blackness while at the same time pushing back against dominant narratives on race to reclaim space for a discussion on racial relations in America filtered through a Black lens.…”
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Louis Adamic and the Metaphor of Immigrant Generations by Dan Shiffman

“…Although the second generation aspired to full inclusion in American life, they struggled with the limitations of an ethnic identity that was often attributed to them by the mainstream society. …”
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The Religion of Consumer Capitalism and the Construction of Corporate Sacred Spaces by Allison P. Coudert

“…From there, they have seeped into just about every imaginable area of American life, turning schools, parks, shopping malls, sports stadiums, hospitals, gyms, health food restaurants, spas, and the very apps on our computers and cell phones into corporate spaces promising new and enticing forms of spiritual enchantment. …”
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From Harlem with Love by Leonardo Cascão

“…It will look at the power that DeCarava’s photographs and Hughes’ text have on creating a specific visuality of African American life, based on the Harlem community, rendering itself to be seen as a family album. …”
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