The British Association for American Studies is pleased to maintain a list of news and events from across the American Studies community.
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Contributions are invited for an anthology on themes, texts, key people and representations in 21st century American Studies. The interest is to explore the major cultural, literary and cinematic events that have informed, and continue to do so, our understanding of American studies in the last 25 years.
How did the USA celebrate the bicentennial? Join Will Kaufman, Angel-Luke O'Donnell, Claire Watt and the Mike Collins for a live discussion at the British Library's Foyle Room, Wednesday 15 July, 18.30-19.30
The British Association for American Studies invites applications for the following positions at the Journal of American Studies: 1 x Co-Editor, 1 x Associate Editor (Features), 1 x Associate Editor (Book Reviews).
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"Amidst a sea of scholars focused on finding reproducible rules for organizing success, Adams keeps his sights on the core political questions that matter: How democratic is activism? And what does it hail for the consensus goals of majority rule and citizen engagement? The answer is that activism and majority rule sit in conflict. It's not the conclusion we want, but it's the insight we need to figure out what comes next." - Marc Doussard, coauthor of Justice at Work: The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities.
"This provocative book focuses upon on vigilance committees in Pennsylvania, New York, and New England to provide historical confirmation of some parts of Underground Railroad myths and to bust open others. . . . This energetically argued, copiously documented book does a great service to the study of abolition by showing how thought and action originating far outside the formal political sphere propelled a nation toward an emancipatory crisis." - Journal of American History Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize.
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