American Studies

Humanitarian Violence The U.S. Deployment of Diversity Neda Atanasoski 2013 Fall

Exploring the transition from the old imperialism based on race to the new imperialism based on diversity

The Freak-garde Extraordinary Bodies and Revolutionary Art in America Robin Blyn 2013 Fall

Why and how the freak show inspires some of the most revolutionary experiments in American art in the twentieth century

Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s Christina Gerken 2013 Fall

Reveals how watershed 1990s legislation foregrounded neoliberal ideals while disguising racial fears

Virtual Modernism Writing and Technology in the Progressive Era Katherine Biers 2013 Fall

A fascinating analysis of the relationship between modernist writers and the popular culture they so often claimed to reject

Escape from New York The New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, Editors 2013 Fall

Resituating the Harlem Renaissance—and the New Negro movement—in broader global political and cultural currents

Filipinos Represent DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. 2013 Fall

What does it mean when Filipino youth lay claim to an art form associated with African Americans?

Ariel’s Ecology Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics Monique Allewaert 2013 Spring

Rethinking the boundaries between humans and nonhumans in early America

Radiance from Halcyon A Utopian Experiment in Religion and Science Paul Eli Ivey 2013 Spring

A revealing history of a surprisingly influential and inventive theosophical utopian community

Why We Left Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants Joanna Brooks 2013 Spring

The myth-busting truth behind early English immigration to North America as told through traditional folk ballads

Debating the End of History The Marketplace, Utopia, and the Fragmentation of Intellectual Life David W. Noble 2012 Fall

Why the global marketplace doesn’t—and can’t—provide the utopian world it promises

War, Genocide, and Justice Cambodian American Memory Work Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 2012 Fall

Examining Cambodian American cultural production as memory work

No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays Ellen Willis 2012 Fall

Insightful, persuasive essays on feminism and identity politics

Beginning to See the Light Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Ellen Willis 2012 Fall

Ellen Willis traces the development of rock-and-roll and the legacy of the ’60s and ’70s

Imperfect Unions Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction Diana Rebekkah Paulin 2012 Spring

Highlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. history

Observation Points The Visual Poetics of National Parks Thomas Patin, Editor 2012 Spring

A new understanding of visual rhetoric offers unique insights into issues of representation and identity

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