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Mar. 1 | 2012 Franklin Prize
Nominations for 2012 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | 2012 Romero Prize
Nominations for 2012 Lora Romero Publication Prize for the best-published first book in American Studies due
Mar. 1 | Community Partnership Grants
Applications for the 2012 Community Partnership Grants Program to assist American Studies collaborative, interdisciplinary community projects due
Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Vogel, Todd. "Staging Race and Sabotaging Whiteness," American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, April 1999.
I argue that nineteenth-century writers and orators staged race to overturn the prevailing ideology of whiteness. I use archival sources, theory, close textual analysis, and thick description to map the interstices of racial formation, illustrate alternative national narratives, tear down dubious barriers between mainstream and marginalized texts and map a new approach to identity. Works by antebellum black newspaper editors, Native American writer and orator William Apess, African-American Anna Julia Cooper and Chinese American Sui Sin Far show how some fought the whitewash of American society, history, and power and used the master’s tools in their attempt to bring down the master’s house.
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