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Housing the "Other" Half: American Studies' Global Urban Turn [PDF]
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010 <p>Over the course of its short lifetime, the discipline of American studies has utilized a series of self-defining metaphors. With each successive paradigm shift in the field, each of these disciplinary figures, in turn, has been found wanting ...
David Faflik
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African American acafandom and other strangers: New genealogies of fan studies
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2015 Because scholars have paid insufficient attention to race in fan studies, a new genealogy of fan studies is needed, one that includes different kinds of primary and secondary texts that have explored responses of black fans.
Rebecca Wanzo
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Displacing and Disrupting: A Dialogue on Hmong Studies and Asian American Studies [PDF]
Hmong Studies Journal, 2015 This article summarizes a roundtable discussion of scholars that took place at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference in San Francisco, 2014. Hailing from various academic disciplines, the participants explored the relationship between the
Hui Wilcox
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American studies and the new historicism [PDF]
Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, 1997 This essay argues that one major reason American studies has proved resistant to the New Historicism is that its model of pouvoir-savoir, derived from Foucault, works more readily for cultures dominated by centralized power (e.g., Greenblatt's studies of
Chocano Díaz, María Gema
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Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право, 2022 The article discusses the development of the American studies in the Soviet Union, in Russia, with focus on the key fields of investigations, the main centers for the United States studies; and periodicals where the results of these studies are being ...
I. I. Ivanov
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Of Horizon: An Introduction to “The Afro-American” by W. E. B. Du Bois—circa 1894
Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010 This article offers an introduction to the hitherto unpublished early essay by W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Afro-American.” More precisely it outlines the problematic of the essay and places the essay amidst Du Bois’s writings of the 1890s and the production ...
Nahum D. Chandler
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Correlation between Neck Circumference and Other Anthropometric Measurements in Eight Latin American Countries. Results from ELANS Study [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Neck circumference (NC) is being used to identify the risk of chronic diseases. There is a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latin America, and neck circumference is a simple and practical measurement to assess this, especially in primary health centers.
Reyna, Liria-Domínguez +12 more
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Diversity of HLA Class I and Class II blocks and conserved extended haplotypes in Lacandon Mayans. [PDF]
, 2020 Here we studied HLA blocks and haplotypes in a group of 218 Lacandon Maya Native American using a high-resolution next generation sequencing (NGS) method.
Aguilar-Vázquez, José Artemio +23 more
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Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010 This hitherto unpublished essay by W. E. B. Du Bois, the text titled “The Afro-American,” which likely dates to the late autumn of 1894 or the winter of 1895, is an early attempt by the young scholar to define for himself the contours of the situation of
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Integrative Cancer Therapies, 2022 Mind-body interventions have been shown to improve physical and mental health outcomes among cancer survivors, and African Americans have one of the highest cancer mortality rates of all racial/ethnic groups, while often facing considerable barriers to ...
Pinky Shani PhD, MSN, RN, Eli Walter BA
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