American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present
Much of the most exciting contemporary work in American Studies refuses the distinction between politics and culture—focusing on historical cultures of power and protest on the one hand, or the political importance of cultural practices on the other. The titles in American Studies Now cover these political and cultural intersections while such teachable moments are at the center of public conversation.
"This series fills an important need. Students can read these short books in their entirety and absorb them. They are timely, picking up on emerging, and rapidly changing topics, our 'moments of danger' in or at least near their actual moment."—David Roediger, past President of the American Studies Association
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Series editors:
Lisa Duggan, New York University
Curtis Marez, University of California, San Diego
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Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century
by A. Naomi Paik (Author)May 2020A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South
by L.H. Stallings (Author)Dec 2019Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas
by Macarena Gomez-Barris (Author)Aug 2018Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century
by Barbara Ransby (Author)Aug 2018Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism
by Shelley Streeby (Author)Jan 2018The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit
by Scott Kurashige (Author)Jul 2017