College Lecture Series: The American Dream and Dreams Deferred

Carlton D. Floyd, PhD | English
Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, PhD | Sociology

The American Dream and Dreams Deferred: A Dialectical Fairy Tale, shows how rival interpretations of the American Dream reveal the dialectical tensions therein. Exploring often neglected voices, literature and histories, the authors, Carlton D. Floyd, PhD, and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, PhD, highlight moments when the American Dream appears both simultaneously possible and out of reach. In so doing, the authors invite readers to make a new collective dream of a better future, on socially just, multicultural and ecologically sustainable foundations.