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Register and Attend 2020 Annual Meeting Freedom Courses
Freedom Courses scheduled for November 12-15 will bring ASA members together around urgent topics related to unfolding crises. From "COVID-19, Abolition, Disability Justice" to "Cops Off Campus: A Teach-In on Anti-Blackness, the University, and Policing," these courses aim to sustain our intellectual community during difficult times.
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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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Original research, teaching, critical thinking, public discussion, and dissent. We share a commitment to viewing U.S. history and culture from multiple perspectives and taking a stand on issues of importance and broad consensus.
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2021 Annual Meeting
Creativity within Revolt
October 7-10 // San Juan, Puerto Rico
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
ASA Announcements
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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.
Community Announcements
March 1, 2021
Posted for American Studies Departments, Programs, and Centers in Community Updates
February 22, 2021
New Graduate Certificate Program in Disability Studies
Posted for Critical Disability Studies Caucus in Community Updates
October 26, 2020
2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Award Winner
Posted for International Committee in Press Releases
ASA Calendar
May 15, 2021
Deadline: Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty
Posted by Gender and Sexuality Studies in Deadline
May 15, 2021
Deadline: Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award
Posted by Minority Scholars' Committee in Deadline
American Quarterly
March 2021
Volume 73, Number 1
This issue features five essays, a forum on the keyword authenticity, and three reviews. In the forum, convener Jonna Eagle and scholars from diverse disciplinary, cultural, and personal backgrounds explore the practice and stakes of measurement and valuation, affirmation and exclusion involved in characterizing something as (in)authentic. The review section includes book reviews by Jillian Hernandez, who discusses works that deal with aesthetics in relation to racial being, subjection, and autonomy; and Vineeta Singh, who examines texts in critical university studies that question our understanding of what, how, and why we study in the academy. Finally, in a digital project review, Lindsay Garcia introduces us to Equality Archive, a digital encyclopedia of feminist knowledge that was built deploying feminist principles through the platform’s infrastructure, the collective arrangement of labor, the curation of topics, and the figuring of praxis as central to knowledge.
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