American Studies Journal

Today's article is "Radical Times, Continuities in Struggle" by Joo Ok Kim (Vol 59, No. 2)

It's just three short pages if you're looking for something short and sweet while waiting for the bus.

#JeNeSuisPasUnVirus #covid_19 #americanstudies #article

Happy Tuesday,
Today's article is "White Noise and Everyday Technologies" by Susana S. Martins (Vol. 46, No. 1) The article is an analysis of the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo.

#reading
#bookrecommendations #bookstagram #whitenoise #technology #americanstudies #journal

Today's article is "Expect the Truth!" Exploiting History with Mandingo by Andrew DeVos (Vol. 52, No. 2)

#mandingo #moviehistory #70s #slavery #americanstudies #article

Happy Friday,
Today's article is "I Still Have to Protest This? Civil Rights Temporalities and Reproductive Dystopias" by Rebecca Wanzo (Vol. 63, No. 3)

#abortion #healthcare #civilrights #americanstudies #journal

"we didn't know at the time that we were questioning our gender. We just knew that this felt right. There wasn't this terminology, all this labeling- you know what I mean?" Quote from Major, a black transgender women, in her 1998 interview.

Today's article is "Queering the Library: Naming the Subject Is an Act of Power" by Margaret Breidenbaugh (Vol. 62, no. 1/2)
Read here: amsj.blog/2023/04/20/q...
On our blog!!

#queer #library #lgbtq #subjects #americanstudies #journal

"Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing." - UC Press

Happy Friday,
It's book review time! Today's book is The End of Burnout by Jonathan Malesic - the book review can be found in Vol. 62, No. 1/2 by Carrie Lane

#burnouts #work #exhaustion #americanstudies #journal #bookrecommendations #bookreview

Happy Tuesday,
Today's article is "Groove Theory: A Vamp on the Epistemology of Funk" by Tony Bolden
You can find this article and the full funk issue on our website; it's Vol. 52 No. 4 (2013)
#funk #music #americanstudies #academia

You can learn more about the artist, Dougie Padilla, at his website www.dougiepadilla.com

Also check out more art and articles in vol. 62 "Unsettling Global Midwests"

#dougiepadilla #art #midwest #americanstudies #journal

Happy Friday,
today's art piece is "Self-Portrait @ 69.65 My Blood" by Dougie Padilla (Vol. 62, No. 4)
This piece first appeared in "Lucky 70 (Suerte)" an art exhibition at Rogue Buddha Gallery in Minneapolis, MN.

First photo is of Gronk and Patssi Valdez in "Instant Mural", 1974, Photograph by Harry Gamboa Jr.
Gronk and Patssi Valdez were members of Asco, a Chicano art group active in the 70s and 80s. It's not related to the article, but this is a good time to highlight an incredible article and art group.

Happy Tuesday,
Todays article is "The (Re)Shaping of Latino/Chicano Ethnicity through the Inclusion/Exclusion of Undocumented Immigrants" by Katsuyuki Murata (Vol. 39, No. 2).

#asco #chicano #latino #immigration #history #americanstudies #journal

1. Check out the new blog post that features a Q&A with author Ross Benes here: kansaspress.ku.edu/.../03/blog-....

2. Order the book 1999 here: kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700638574/.

3. Listen to the collaborative 90s playlist by Benes and UPK here: open.spotify.com/playlist/1zs...

Art is by Dana Verkouteran (AP Press, 2009)

#citizensunited #neoliberalism #democracy #americanstudies #journal #article

Happy Friday,
Recently I've been talking about the role of corporations in our government with some friends. So today's article is a discussion of Citizens United, "Uniting Citizens after Citizens United: Cities, Neoliberalism, and Democracy" by Michan Connor (Vol. 54, No. 1).

Happy Tuesday,
Today's article is "The Importance of Learning About the Rest of the World: What Would Emerson Say Today?" By Lewis Hanke, Vol. 24, No. 2, 1986
A short and interesting read that can be found on our website or jstor 😊

#education #ralphwaldoemerson #fulbright #americanstudies

Happy Friday!
Today we have another book review for the book "The Myth That Made Us" by Jeff Fuhrer
The review, written by David Karjanen, can be read in Vol. 63, No. 2

#themyththatmadeus #rascism #bookrecommendations #bookreview #americanstudies #journal

Seeking a range of perspectives– student, faculty, teacher, researcher, staff, administrator, etc.-- we want to contribute to a more complex understanding of “the university” or academia more generally, especially thinking about how Chicanx/Latinx students, faculty, and staff experience it.

Our goal is to publish a rich and varied collection of work that demonstrates how Chicanx/Latinx studies scholarship offers a critique of academic institutions and practices.

This special issue of American Studies will explore the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies. Our goal is to publish a rich and varied collection of work that demonstrates how Chicanx/Latinx studies scholarship offers a critique of academic institutions and practices. Seeking a range of perspectives– student, faculty, teacher, researcher, staff, administrator, etc.-- we want to contribute to a more complex understanding of “the university” or academia more generally, especially thinking about how Chicanx/Latinx students, faculty, and staff experience it.

CALL FOR PAPERS!!!
This special issue of American Studies will explore the intersections between Chicanx/Latinx Studies and Critical University Studies.

You can learn more about him on his website ashoncrawley.com

Happy Wednesday,
Today's article is "Protest, Prayer" by Ashon T. Crawley (Vol. 59, No. 2, 2020)
It's a short and powerful read and Ashon Crawley is an incredible professor and artist.
Artwork is "dancing in one spot" by Ashon Crawley
#protest #prayer #art #ashoncrawley #americanstudies #journal

You can read the full article in Vol. 60, No. 3/4 of our journal and of course check out Butler's trilogy series "Lilith's Brood"
(First book in the trilogy is called "Dawn" as an fyi)

#octaviabutler #lilithsbrood #afrofuturism #booksuggestions #americanstudies #journal

Happy Friday,
Today's article is "Octavia Butler and the Settler Colonial Speculative: Xenogenesis and Planetary Loss" by Smaran Dayal
The article looks at Butler's theorization of Settler Colonialism in the Lilith's Brood trilogy.

Happy Tuesday,
Today we have a book review for you; "American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam" by John Hellmann
The book review can be found in Vol. 27, No. 2

#bookrecommendations #bookreview #vietnam #greatbooks #americanstudies #journal

The article reminded me of an article by David Lindsay, published in 1976, called "Truth or Consequences?"
It's a bit more of a philosophical read and it has an interesting discussion of the role of the judicial branch in America, the question of lying, and a bit of situational ethics.

Happy Friday,
Today NPR published an article talking about the conflict between the judicial branch and the executive branch of the government. It's a short read (and you can listen to it too) by Carrie Johnson.

#judge #judicial #npr #philosophy #americanstudies #journal

Happy Friday! Today we have another book review, the review is by Carol Mason for the book "Dangerous Pregnancies: Mother's, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America" by Leslie Reagan

The full review can be found in Vol. 51, No. 3/4 (2010)

#bookrecommendations #bookreview #americanstudies

Happy Tuesday! Today's archive find is Factory Farms in a Consumer Society by Chad Lavin (Vol. 50, No. 1/2)

Painting is Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley, 1867 by George Inness

#farmlife #farms #consumerism #americanstudies #journal

We are excited and eager to see your work!