The Routledge Handbook on the American Dream Volume 2

1. Introduction: Theorizing the American Dream

Robert C. Hauhart and Mitja Sardoč

　

Part I: Economic Success and Upward Economic Mobility and the American Dream

2. In Pursuit of the Elusive American Dream: Black Woman Professionals

Tsedale M. Melaku

3. Markets, Finance, Whiteness, and the American Dream

Karen Ho

4. Earning Rent with Your Talent: American Inequality Rests on the Power to Define, Transfer and Institutionalize Talent

Jonathan J.B. Mijs

5. From American Dream to Nordic Realities?

Ingrid Christensen, John Erik Fossum and Bent-Sofus Tranøy

6. Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream

Mitja Sardoč and Vladimir Prebilič

7. What "American" dream? Contemporary reflections

Melanie E L Bush

8. Achieving the American Dream: How Middle Class Blacks Socialize Their Children to Make It to the Top

Karyn Lacy

　

Part II: Contemporary Issues in American Dream Studies

9. What (American) Dreams are made of: Disney’s Fairy Tale Narratives

Tracey Mollet

10. How Free-Market Family Policy Crushed the American Dream

Maxine Eichner

　

Part III: Migration and the Immigrant American Dream

11. A Twenty-First Century African Immigrant View of the American Dream’s Challenges and Opportunities

Enock Ariga Marindi and Robert C. Hauhart

12. The Boys from Little Mexico Redux: Dreaming the Immigrant Dream

Steve Wilson

　

Part IV: Marginalized Americans and the American Dream

13. Incorporation and Disruption: What Fictional Narratives Can Tell Us About the Realities of the American Dream

Elda María Román

14. The American Dream and Muslim Americans: (Im)Possibilities and Realities of Pursuing the Dream

Arshia Anwer

15. Gay Neighborhoods: Reimagining the Traditional Conception of the American Dream

Theodore Greene

16. The American Dream: Rhetoric of Opportunity and Reality of Exclusion

Joan Maya Mazelis

　

Part V: The American Dream Goes Global?

17. "Good Living" and Immigrants in the Literature of Aleksandar Hemon: Towards the Humble Dream

Iva Kosmos

 

Part VI: Sustainability and the American Dream

18. A Dream Deferred: Professional Projects as Racial Projects in US Medicine

LaTonya J. Trotter

19. Status Maintenance, Mobility, and the Persistence of Class Barriers to Achieving the American Dream

Biography

Robert C. Hauhart is a Professor in the Department of Society and Social Justice at Saint Martin’s University, USA, where he teaches courses in sociology, criminology, social justice, law, and literature. His research focuses on the concept of the American Dream in twentieth and twenty-first century sociology, as well as research and writiing on multiple themes, including the American Dream, in American literature. In 2019 he was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award to teach and research the American Dream at the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU) in Ljubljana, where he maintains an association as a visiting research fellow. He is the author of several books, including The Lonely Quest: Constructing the Self in the Twenty-First Century United States (Routledge, 2018) and Seeking the American Dream: A Sociological Inquiry (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), which was nominated for the Pacific Sociological Association’s Distinguished Scholarship Award in 2017. He is also co-editor of American Writers in Exile (Salem Press 2015); Social Justice in American Literature (Salem Press 2017); European Writers in Exile (Lexington Books 2018); Connections and Influences Between the Russian and American Short Story (Lexington Books 2021); The Routledge Handbook of the American Dream: Volume 1 (Routledge, 2021), and Significant Food in American Literature (University of Georgia Press, forthcoming). He is the co-author (with Jon Grahe, Pacific Lutheran University, of Designing and Teachiing Undergraduate Capstone Courses (Jossey-Bass/Wiley 2015)

Mitja Sardoč is Senior Research Associate at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is a member of the Educational Research program. His research interests include citizenship education, patriotism, multiculturalism, toleration, radicalization and violent extremism, talents and distributive justice, and equality of opportunity. He is editor of numerous books including, most recently, Handbook of Patriotism (Springer 2020), The Impacts of Neoliberal Discourse and Language in Education: Critical Perspectives on a Rhetoric of Equality, Well-Being, and Justice (Routledge, 2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Making Sense of Radicalization and Violent Extremism: Interviews and Conversations (Routledge, 2022), and Talents and Distributive Justice (Routledge, 2022). He is also co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of the American Dream: Volume 1 (2021) and Managing Editor of the Theory and Research in Education journal.

The Routledge Handbook 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 21^st 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