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Researchers, teachers, students, writers, activists, curators, community organizers, and activists from around the world who are dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture and history in a global context.
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Many things that connect us to each other. We publish American Quarterly; organize an annual international meeting and regional events; provide resources; and collaborate with museums, public institutions, and communities.
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2021 Annual Meeting
Creativity within Revolt
October 7-9, 2021 // In-Person Conference, San Juan, PR (Atlantic Standard Time)
October 11-14, 2021 // Virtual Conference (Eastern Daylight Time)
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?
Arriving to San Juan, Puerto Rico by Francisco Jose Carrera Campos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Resources from the 2019 Annual Meeting // Honolulu, Hawai‘i
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American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers
The Committee on Departments, Programs and Centers keeps the Council and the association’s membership informed of the current interests, needs, and professional concerns of American Studies departments, programs, and centers.
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September 4, 2021
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
September 4, 2021
Minority and Indigenous Graduate Student Travel Grant (2021)
Posted for Critical Ethnic Studies, Minority Scholars' Committee in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
September 1, 2021
Q/T Caucus Awards: Call for Nominations
Posted for Queer/Trans Caucus in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
ASA Calendar
October 7, 2021 to October 9, 2021
2021 Annual Meeting (In-person AST)
Posted by ASA Office in Conference
March 3, 2022 to March 5, 2022
SASA 2022: Resistance and (Re)Generation
Posted by Southeastern American Studies Association in Conference
American Quarterly
June 2021
Volume 73, Number 2
The first three essays in this issue all deal with the scripts, frames, and boundaries prescribed on racialized subjects in different contexts and the ways in which those subjects maneuver and assert their agency. The next two essays look at different forms and uses of media in addressing politics and affect. This issue also features an important forum that examines the triangulated politics of the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan through the historical and contemporary US imaginary. Six book reviews are featured, which deal with psychopower, psychopolitics, criminalization of racialized communities, and racialized, gendered, and neoliberal violence in the ongoing colonization of Latin America.
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