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Housing the "Other" Half: American Studies' Global Urban Turn [PDF]

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
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, and so replaced. American studies’ current, if not consensual, metaphor—the “border”—resembles not a few of its
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. There is a rich history of black fan criticism and acafandom that has never been seen as such but that both complements and ...
Rebecca Wanzo
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American Studies in Russia

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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Misrepresentation of the Other: A Postcolonial Study in Selected Arab and American Novels

International Journal of Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021
The paper sheds light on one of the important concepts in contemporary literature which tackles the representation of the Other in selected Arabic and American literary products. The representation of the other holds many misrepresentations and stereotypes, both varying and fixed; as such, the study of the literary representations of the other which ...
Ibraheem Ajeel Dakhil, Ibraheem Ajeel Dakhil   +1 more
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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This article offers an introduction to the hitherto unpublished early essay by W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Afro-American.”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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The Afro-American

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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Acceptability and Use of Mind-Body Interventions Among African American Cancer Survivors: An Integrative Review

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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A decreased risk of meningioma in women smokers was only observed in American studies rather than studies conducted in other countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Chinese Neurosurgical Journal, 2021
Background Whether smoking is related to a decreased risk of meningioma in women is still controversial. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis examining the association between smoking and risk of meningiomas in women.
Ping Zhong, Yiting Lin, Ting Chen
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The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet?

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
<p>This article polemically engages with recent trends and particular interventions in American transnational studies. It argues that the transnationalization of American literary and cultural studies, a movement sponsored institutionally by the ...
Bryce Traister
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Making the Case for Middlebrow Culture

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2010
It is commonly assumed that Caribbean culture is split into elite highbrow culture—which is considered derivative of Europe and not rooted in the Caribbean—and authentic working-class culture, which is often identified with such iconic island activities ...
Belinda Edmondson
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