Impian Amerika adalah etos nasional Amerika Serikat, sekumpulan ide bahwa kebebasan meliputi kesempatan untuk makmur dan sukses, dan mobilitas sosial ke atas melalui kerja keras. Dalam definisi Impian Amerika oleh James Truslow Adams tahun 1931, "kehidupan semua orang harus lebih baik dan kaya dan penuh dengan kesempatan menurut kemampuan atau prestasinya" tanpa mengenal kelas sosial atau kondisi lahir.[1]
Bagi banyak imigran, Patung Liberty adalah objek pertama yang dilihat di Amerika Serikat, menandakan kesempatan hidup yang baru. Patung ini adalah simbol Impian Amerika yang terkenal.
Kamp, David (2009). "Rethinking the American Dream". Vanity Fair. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2009-05-30. Diakses tanggal June 20, 2009.Parameter |month= yang tidak diketahui akan diabaikan (bantuan)
Pustaka
Adams, James Truslow. (1931). The Epic of America (Little, Brown, and Co. 1931)
Brueggemann, John. Rich, Free, and Miserable: The Failure of Success in America (Rowman & Littlefield; 2010) 233 pages; links discontent among middle-class Americans to the extension of market thinking into every aspect of life.
Chua, Chen Lok. "Two Chinese Versions of the American Dream: The Golden Mountain in Lin Yutang and Maxine Hong Kingston," MELUS Vol. 8, No. 4, The Ethnic American Dream (Winter, 1981), pp.61–70 in JSTOR
Hanson, Sandra L., and John Zogby, "The Polls—Trends," Public Opinion Quarterly, Sept 2010, Vol. 74 Issue 3, pp 570–584
Hanson, Sandra L. and John Kenneth White, ed. The American Dream in the 21st Century (Temple University Press; 2011); 168 pages; essays by sociologists and other scholars how on the American Dream relates to politics, religion, race, gender, and generation.
Hopper, Kenneth, and William Hopper. The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos (2009), argues the Dream was devised by British entrepreneurs who build the American economy
Levinson, Julie. The American Success Myth on Film (Palgrave Macmillan; 2012) 220 pages
Lieu, Nhi T. The American Dream in Vietnamese (U. of Minnesota Press, 2011) 186 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-6570-9
Ownby, Ted. American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty, and Culture 1830–1998 (University of North Carolina Press, 1999)
Samuel, Lawrence R. The American Dream: A Cultural History (Syracuse University Press; 2012) 241 pages; identifies six distinct eras since the phrase was coined in 1931.
