Серия "American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present"

“Puts campus activism in a radical historic context.”—New York Review of Books In the post–World War II period, students rebelled against the university establishment. In student-led movements, women, minorities, immigrants, and indigenous people demanded that universities adapt to better serve the increasingly heterogeneous public and student bodies. The success of these movements had a profound impact on the intellectual landscape of the twentieth...

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our...

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream. Mainstream observers contended that the “riot” brought about the ruin of a once-great city; for them, the municipal bankruptcy of 2013 served as a bailout paving the way for the rebuilding of Detroit. Challenging this prevailing view, Scott...

&#160;<B>&quot;Astute.&quot;&mdash;<I>New York Times&#160;</I></B><BR /><BR /> Ayn Rand&rsquo;s complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been resurrected as a serious reference point for mainstream figures, especially those on the political right from Paul Ryan to...

&quot;A powerful &mdash; and personal &mdash; account of the movement and its players.&quot;&mdash;The&#160;Washington Post&ldquo;This perceptive resource on radical black liberation movements in the 21st century can inform anyone wanting to better understand . . . how to make social change.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly The breadth and impact of Black Lives Matter in the United States has been extraordinary. Between 2012 and 2016, thousands of people...

From the 1960s to the present, activists, artists, and science fiction writers have imagined the consequences of climate change and its impacts on our future. Authors such as Octavia Butler and Leslie Marmon Silko, movie directors such as Bong Joon-Ho, and creators of digital media such as the makers of the Maori web series&#160;<I>Anamata Future News</I>&#160;have all envisioned future worlds during and after environmental collapse, engaging audiences to think about the...

&ldquo;Let this book immerse you in the many worlds of environmental justice.&rdquo;&mdash;Naomi Klein We are living in a precarious environmental and political moment. In the United States and in the world, environmental injustices have manifested across racial and class divides in devastatingly disproportionate ways. What does this&#160;moment of danger mean for the environment and for justice? What can we learn from environmental justice struggles? &#160;Environmental...

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS) has expanded rapidly though controversially in the United States in the last five years. The academic boycott of Israeli academic institutions is a key component of this movement. What is this boycott? Why does it make sense? And why is this an American Studies issue? In this short essential book<I>,</I> Sunaina Maira addresses these key questions.&#160;<I>Boycott!</I>&#160;situates the academic boycott in the...

How can we create a model of politics that reaches beyond the nation-state, and beyond settler-colonialism, authoritarianism, and neoliberalism? In&#160;<I>Beyond the Pink Tide,&#160;</I>Macarena G&oacute;mez-Barris explores the alternatives of recent sonic, artistic, activist, visual, and embodied cultural production. By focusing on radical spaces of potential, including queer, youth, trans-feminist, Indigenous, and anticapitalist movements and artistic praxis,...

Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question&#160;tells the story of&#160;the country&rsquo;s first Latina Supreme Court Associate Justice&rsquo;s&#160;rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. While Sotomayor&rsquo;s confirmation appeared to signal the greater acceptance and inclusion of Latinos&mdash;the nation&rsquo;s largest &ldquo;minority majority&rdquo;&mdash;the...

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders&mdash;these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration&rsquo;s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president&rsquo;s xenophobic, racist, ableist,...

From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars. Antagonism toward reproductive freedom, partner rights, and transgender rights has revealed a new and unacknowledged era of southern reconstruction centered on gender and sexuality.<BR /><BR /> In <I>A Dirty South Manifesto,</I> L.&#160;H. Stallings celebrates the roots of radical sexual...