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“With a global pandemic not far behind us, Trotter’s sweeping and thorough history of the ways African Americans fought to secure their physical and mental well-being, even as they fought for civil and economic rights, is timely as ever.”—Earl Lewis, author of In Their Own Interests: Race, Class, and Power in Twentieth-Century Norfolk, Virginia
Nominations sought for the Research Society for American Periodicals Article Prize for 2024-2025. Deadline 15 December 2025.
A statement on American Studies in Britain and Academic Freedom prepared by the BAAS Executive Committee.
NEW EARLIER DEADLINES FOR BAAS DEVELOPMENT FUND APPLICATIONS (1st FEBRUARY & 1st OCTOBER): 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.
This book considers the presence of the supernatural and Gothic elements of the Western on screen. It identifies traditions usually associated with the Gothic or horror film in the Western and examines ways in which they have often played either sub-textual or explicit rolesin the Western narrative throughout its history and in contemporary forms.
"A needed book. Its focus on Black radicalism in New York in the decade before the Harlem uprising and the assassination of Malcolm X, and its centering of Black women organizers, is particularly valuable." - Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, author of King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life of Struggle Outside the South
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