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“Harvey’s bountiful book zeros in on scenes of ‘the hunt’ and ‘the stakeout’ to argue that passing is of utmost concern for black life. The chords that Harvey strums in this formidable book about racial passing are both familiar and unusual. Harvey’s book is essential reading for anyone concerned with surveillance and passing in the wake of chattel slavery.”—Tiffany Lethabo King, of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
Staging the Archive’s latest project has produced an exciting new education resource: Working with teachers, theatre-makers, researchers and the British Library's Learning and Curatorial Teams we co-produced a series of teaching resources and new essays to support the study and staging of plays developed by Black theatre makers working in Britain in the early 20thC. https://padlet.com/discovering_literature/black-theatre-makers-in-the-early-20th-century-eef2i81hxmlbvltq
The BAAS community has been deeply saddened by the death of Professor Jason Arday.
“Smith’s work on the experience of Black farmers during the Jim Crow era joins a vibrant field of scholarship focused on agriculture as a site of independence and self-sufficiency, not only as a site of exploitation.” —Adrienne Monteith Petty, author of Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War
In Progress is a peer-reviewed online journal based at the English Department of Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. For our Spring 2027 issue, we invite submissions from MA students in North American Cultural Studies, including revised term papers and essays of up to 7500 words. Deadline: Oct 15th, 2026.
The deadline for submitting an application to the BAAS Development Fund is approaching on 1st October 2026.: BAAS invites scholars in any field of American Studies to apply for grants of up to two years in duration. Grants may be requested for up to a maximum of £2000 for a range of American Studies academic activities that seek to develop American Studies scholarly communities.
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