American Studies

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• Drain Bamage: I Guess It’s Going to Be “All About Soul” Forever

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 653
  Billy Joel: Hes a nice man, but hes gotta go. They tell me, in this shaded room where the machines beep softly and the drip feed makes a soft “plop” every minute or so, that I am mad to declare, as I do, that my only solution is to go back in time and strangle Billy Joel in his cradle. They say that I am mad, ...
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  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  Congratulations to Laura Lomas, author of Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities , for winning the seventh annual MLA Prize in United States Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Studies . The prize is awarded for an outstanding scholarly study of Latina or ...
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• Pelloms Time Shop

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 653
  Its the oldest shop in Black Mountain, North Carolina. None of the other shop keepers can remember a time when it wasnt here. Nobody in town can remember a time when Pellom himself wasnt here. The Time Shop and Pellom may well have been here before the town was here; before even the Cherokee were here. Nobody can ...
  2 days ago

• The War on Welfare--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  The War on Welfare: Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America Marisa Chappell 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4204-1 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Focusing on the fate of the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...
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• Visions of Progress--Now in Paperback

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 336 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2095-7 | $24.95 | £16.50 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Rossinow revisits the period between the 1880s and ...
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• Brenda R. Weber tackles Makeover TV

  
  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  Check out our new YouTube video! Brenda R. Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity (2009), answers questions about her new book, the makeover tv genre, and the influence the concept of makeovers has on popular culture and thinking.
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• Were Here, Because Were Here, Because Were Here, Because Were Here! Or, Why Disciplines Rule The University Roost

  
  Tenured Radical — Authority: 455
  If you are the chair of an interdisciplinary program and see any meetings with deans or provosts in the immediate future, make sure you read University of Pennsylvania sociologist Jerry A. Jacobs Interdisciplinary Hype in the Chronicle of Higher Education (11/22/09). It will prepare you for every tired old ...
  6 days ago

• Archives of American Time--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Lloyd Pratt 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4208-9 | $55.00 | £36.00 In a bold revision of traditional historical narratives, Pratt analyzes nineteenth-century American literature to disclose the competing ...
  1 week ago

• Books on Traffic

  
  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  In honor of the years busiest travel week, NPR is doing a series on traffic safety , which inspired us to think about several recent Duke Press books nominally about the subject. Enda Duffys The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism returns to the early days of the automobile to examine how the experience ...
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• Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 129
  Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America Michael L. Ondaatje 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4206-5 | $34.95 | £23.00 Michael L. Ondaatje examines the ideas and arguments of prominent black conservative thinkers during the past three decades, charting the evolution of black conservative ...
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• Stoke-on-Trent Goes Green!

  
  dcat — Authority: 128
  As many of you know, I spent a good hunk of my spring/summer as a fallow at the David Bruce Centre for American Studies at the University of Kent in England. The nearest town to the self-contained university is Stoke-on-Trent. Im pleased to report that Stoke-on-Trent is set to become the first city to sign up to ...
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• Dell Hymes, 1927-2009

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 741
  Dell Hymes, a giant of sociolinguistic theory, has died. "He didnt have much patience for wasting your time in academic endeavors that wouldnt have a direct relevance for the world and for righting some of the inequalities in the world," [Dr. Nancy] Hornberger said. Or as Dr. Hymes himself put it, describing his ...
  1 week ago

• There are other books besides Palins? Author of "Barack Obamas America" Addresses the Womens National Democratic Club on BOOK TV Sunday, Nov 22, 1:00 PM

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 120
  UMP author and noted political scientist John Kenneth White addresses The Womens National Democratic Club on Sunday, November 22 at 1 p.m. (ET) , on BookTV .        Watch here . _____________________________________ Barack Obamas America How New Conceptions of Race, Family, ...
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• New Books: Different Aspects of Asian American Life

  
  Asian-Nation : Asian American News, Issues, & Current Events Blog — Authority: 454
  As part of this blog’s mission of making academic research and data more easily accessible, understandable, and applicable to a wider audience and to practical, everyday social issues, I highlight new sociological books about Asian Americans and other racial/ethnic groups as I hear about them. A book’s inclusion ...
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• Charron Discusses the Life of Septima Clark on the State of Things today

  
  UNC Press Blog — Authority: 114
  In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousands of African Americans to register to vote and then to link the power of the ballot to concrete strategies for individual and communal empowerment. In Freedom’s ...
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• Some Academics Have More Fun

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 125
  Academic writing requires a certain level of formality across the board, but I am interested in when and why norms form around certain disciplines that allow for a little more fun. Of course, I know most everyone finds a certain level of pleasure in their disciplinary homes whatever they are, but I offer the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Life Notes: Let It Bleed

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 653
  We all need someone we can bleed on, And if you want it, baby, well you can bleed on me. We all need someone we can bleed on, And if you want it, why dont you bleed on me -- Stones, Let It Bleed Im the co-author of the new book, Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the Sixties by Ethan A. ...
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• Struggling with research? Youre not the only one...

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 120
  In Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have , Eszter Hargittai explores the frustration, uncertainty, and challenges that many social scientists face in the course of their research. The collection of essays aims to fill the notable gap in the ...
  2 weeks ago

• San Francisco Bay Guardian Reviews Slaves to Fashion, Glave in Out 100

  
  Duke University Press Log — Authority: 119
  Two nice bits of news today. First, Monica Millers Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity is reviewed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian . Reviewer D. Scott Miller says he will now "direct all queries" regarding black dandies to Millers book, which demonstrates "uncanny ...
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• States of the Union: A Small Core Sample of America

  
  AMERICAN DIGEST — Authority: 653
  The Ferris Wheel, lit in long stripes of searing red and blue and green neon like some whirling sketch of an earth-bound star, pirouettes into the night sky above the slate waters of the Pacific at the end of the Santa Monica pier. Below it, the old seafood restaurant now serves Mexican food where gang-bangers herd ...
  2 weeks ago

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