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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Genser, Wallace Vincent. "'A Rigid Government Over Ourselves': Transformations in Ethnic, Gender, and Race Consciousness on the Northern Borderlands-Michigan, 1805-1865," Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 1998.
This work focuses on the comparative emergence of ethnicity among Michigan residents from the territory’s establishment in 1805 through the Civil War. It incorporates historical, sociological, cultural, and literary approaches in exploring how Yankee-Yorkers, Native American, mixed-race Metis, African Americans, and Irish and German immigrants created gendered notions of ethnicity to advance their social and political goals. It demonstrates that construction of an individual’s ethnicized and gendered self-identity-seen through the prism of social, religious, economic, and political cleavages-served as the touchstone via which women and men throughout the U.S. strove to comprehend their social roles.
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