Asynchronous short course on Multimodality and American Literature
Asynchronous short course on Multimodality and American Literature
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Asynchronous short course on Multimodality and American Literature
Registration is now OPEN for the 2024 Teaching American Studies Network Symposium on “Decoloniality: Difficulties and Multiplicities”. The symposium will take place in person / hybrid at the University of Warwick on 9 July 2024. Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Ward, Lecturer in Race and Diversity Studies at King’s College London, and creator of The Abolitionist Curriculum. The full programme and all details are available on our website: https://baas.ac.uk/community/teaching-as/
Recent American Studies Book Publication: Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793–1845 by Erin Forbes How did creative genius develop in tandem with the criminalization of Blackness in the early United States?
Workers of All Colors Unite: Race and the Origins of American Socialism, by Lorenzo Costaguta.
Josephine McCarty had many identities. But in Albany, New York, she was known as "Dr. Emma Burleigh," the abortionist of Howard Street.
University Of Minnesota Press Examining the racial underpinnings of food, microbial medicine, and disgust in America.
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