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The ASA announces a new initiative, offering institutional membership to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to build cross-institutional collaboration and support.
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2020 Annual Meeting
Creativity within Revolt
November 12-15 // Baltimore, Maryland
In the current moment, people are drawing from multiple legacies of rebellion, protest, survival, and revolution to confront forms of dehumanization and ecological degradation that are foundational to the making of “America.” What might it mean to apprehend and respond to the creative acts of people in revolt? How might creativity enable other ways of envisioning and making sociality, community, bodily and spiritual integrity, and radical futurity?
Baltimore City by Yianni Mathioudakis is licensed under a Creative Commons 2.0 License.
Resources from the 2019 Annual Meeting // Honolulu, Hawai‘i
ASA Announcements
Featured ASA Community
Early Americas Caucus
Since the mid-1990s, the Early American Matters Caucus has been addressing pre-1900 American studies topics, broadly understood. We’re a collegial, friendly group, and we do our best both to cultivate a sense of community among pre-1900 Americanists and to bridge early...
Community Announcements
November 25, 2019
CFP: ASA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, November 12-15, 2020
Posted for Sports Studies Caucus in Annual Meeting
October 30, 2019
FAQS for Applying to Graduate Programs
Posted for ASA Office, Graduate Education in Resources
October 7, 2019
CFP: Queer Futurities: Utopias, Dystopias and Disruptive Transnationalisms
Posted for ASA-JAAS Committee, International Committee in Opportunities
ASA Calendar
March 1, 2020
Deadline: Regional Chapter Grants
Posted by American Studies Association of Texas, California American Studies Association, Chesapeake American Studies Association, Eastern American Studies Association, Great Lakes American Studies Association, Hawai’i American Studies Association, Kentucky-Tennessee American Studies Association, Mid-America American Studies Association, New England American Studies Association, New York Metro American Studies Association in Deadline
American Quarterly
December 2019
Volume 71, Number 4
Empire, war, and colonialism; race, gender, and class; discourse, performance, and subjectivity: these are the issues that the four essays featured here examine through diverse approaches and foci. The forum, “Protesting, Refusing, and Rethinking Borders: A Transnational Perspective,” convened by Sunaina Maira, showcase six essays by scholars and activists engaged in a transnational discussion about border violence and border protests in different locations of the globe. In the Event Review, Wendy Cheng and Juan De Lara discuss Desert X, a contemporary art exhibition in the California desert, to critique its failure to challenge the logics of white supremacy, racism, and capitalism. Finally, we have three book reviews: Keith Feldman discusses five recent books on anti-Muslim racism, Axel González reviews four works from the fast-growing field of racial capitalism, and three works on Christian missions in diverse contexts are discussed by Hillary Kaell.