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The British Library Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania is seeking expressions of interest from HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to collaborate on an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): Beyond the Burger: USA Food Stories in the British Library’s Oral History and Food Industry Literature Collections. The deadline is 12 noon on Friday 29 November 2024.
"Hartigan-O’Connor presents an astute exploration of auctions in the U.S. during the 18th and 19th centuries. Her book references parallel behaviors in England and reminds readers that colonists wanted to profit from their transactions. She explores the relationship among auctions, auctioneers, bidders, and bystanders, all of which creates a palpable picture of the nation’s early economic climate... Well written and full of refreshing details, this economic picture of the early United States is a must for readers." ~Library Journal
"Corinne Mitsuye Sugino’s book is an expansive, ambitious examination of how Asian/Americans are constructed through racial allegory. In this tour de force, Sugino artfully analyzes the rhetoric of 'Asian/American' as fetish, disease vector, carceral subject, and victimized college applicant across popular discourse, film, and the law to construct 'Western Man'. It’s a must-read for scholars interested in the intersection of Asian American studies, rhetoric, and race." ~David C. Oh, author of Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture
"Lifting the Shadow is a path-breaking work and provides readers with eye-opening analyses of how three relatively recent U.S. memorial museums rethink and represent the complicated, violent, and often ignored history and repercussions of U.S. slavery and racism. This well-timed volume will be a valuable asset in the classroom for specialists as well as a public audience interested in issues of race, history, and representation." ~Joyce Apsel, president of the Institute for the Study of Genocide
The 26th annual conference of the Scottish Association for the Study of America (SASA) will convene on March 1, 2025. The SASA committee invites proposals for papers exploring all aspects of and approaches to the history, cultures, societies and politics of the Americas. The day before the conference, on Friday, February 28 we will be holding our bi-annual Postgraduate Workshop. We will announce more details in due course. The conference and workshop will be hosted at the University of Edinburgh.
"Critically analyzing the media mania surrounding each new phase in Jackie's life, Dunak nimbly parses contemporary journalism and academic evaluations to present a cogent social interpretation and nuanced portrait of one of the most influential and persistently misunderstood women in American history." ~Booklist
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