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Rewiring the "Nation"
The Place of Technology in American Studies
Av Carolyn de la Peña, Siva Vaidhyanathan
Häftad, 2007
406 kr
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This special issue of American Quarterly asks powerful and poignant questions about technology and its effects on our bodies, minds, families, economies, armies, and academies. Technology is an entry point for American studies scholars to find new and creative ways to think through social and …
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States
Av R. Marie Griffith, Melani McAlister
Häftad, 2008
437 kr
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This collection of essays from a special issue of American Quarterly explores the complex and sometimes contradictory ways that religion matters in contemporary public life. Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States offers a groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary conversation between …
Nation and Migration
Past and Future
Av David G. Gutiérrez, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
Häftad, 2009
406 kr
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Much of the terrain in American studies has been transformed in recent years by a fundamental reconsideration of the relationship among capitalism, the nation-state, and human migration. Nation and Migration focuses on this disciplinary shift and offers a contemporary understanding of the …
Alternative Contact
Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies
Av Paul Lai, Lindsey Claire Smith
Häftad, 2011
436 kr
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Responding to the recent indigenous turn in American studies, the essays in this volume inform discussion about indigeneity, race, gender, modernity, nation, state power, and globalization in interdisciplinary and broadly comparative global ways. Organized into three thematic sections-Spaces of the …
Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime
Av Paula Chakravartty, Denise Ferreira da Silva
Häftad, 2013
423 kr
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Predatory lending of subprime mortgages targeting the most economically vulnerable minority communities helped trigger the current global financial crisis. This special issue of the journal American Quarterly explores the ways in which "subprime" becomes a racial signifier in the current debate …
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures
Av Raúl Homero Villa, George J. Sánchez
Häftad, 2005
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This special issue of American Quarterly focuses on Los Angeles as an emblematic site through which the scholarship of American studies can be examined. As a city shaped by eighteenth-century European colonization, nineteenth-century U.S. territorial expansion, and twentieth-century migration, Los …
Legal Borderlands
Law and the Construction of American Borders
Av Mary L. Dudziak, Leti Volpp
Häftad, 2006
274 kr
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This collection focuses broadly on the role of law in the construction of U.S. borders and takes up an important question raised by the global turn in American studies scholarship: once territory becomes less critical to scholarship in the discipline, what constitutes the frame of American studies? …
In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
New Paradigms and Social Visions
Av Clyde Woods
Häftad, 2010
326 kr
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Assessing the damage left by Hurricane Katrina in social, cultural, and physical terms, the essays in this volume suggest that the nation's long and historic engagement with the Gulf Coast has entered a new era. While many of the essays analyze Katrina in terms of the relatively recent past, others …
Sound Clash
Listening to American Studies
Av Kara Keeling, Josh Kun
Häftad, 2012
372 kr
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The field of American studies has a long tradition of scholarship and research into the social and cultural worlds of sound. The essays in this volume highlight the key role of sound in the formation of central themes and areas of inquiry within contemporary American studies. The editors have …
