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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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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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Participation in the ASA gives you access to a vibrant scholarly community—at and beyond the annual meeting. You’ll find abundant opportunities for professional advancement, intellectual engagement, and personal development.
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
3/23
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
March 29, 2020
2020 Anzaldúa Award Applications Open
Posted for Gender and Sexuality Studies in Awards, Prizes, and Grants
March 29, 2020
New Members Needed: ASA Standing Committee on Gender & Sexuality
Posted for Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community Updates
March 5, 2020
NYMASA Summer Institute on Abolition
Posted for New York Metro American Studies Association in Community Updates
ASA Calendar
May 15, 2020
Deadline: Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars, Contingent or Community College Faculty
Posted by Gender and Sexuality Studies in Deadline
May 15, 2020
Deadline: Richard A. Yarborough Mentoring Award
Posted by Minority Scholars' Committee in Deadline
American Quarterly
March 2020
Volume 72, Number 1
The first three essays in this issue examine the complex workings of history, memory, storytelling, and literary arts in the context of slavery and settler colonialism, and ask the questions: Who owns and controls narratives? Whose voice do we hear and read? The next three essays explore modernity, race, and the city through sonic, visual, and spatial modes of meaning making. In a digital project review, Melissa Dollman discusses a digital companion to the biography Becoming Richard Pryor. In event reviews, Harrod Suarez examines the exhibit Ohio Artists for Freedoms, Karín Aguilar-San Juan assesses the Minneapolis-based exhibit Prince from Minneapolis, and Ngahiraka Mason reviews the 2019 Honolulu Biennial. Finally, we have three book reviews that discuss new works in disability studies, history of black women, and social and cultural study of robots, respectively.
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