Tag: American Studies

Students on Isherwood: "Come Again, Sir. I Don’t Get You," on death and dissociation in A Single Man

January 8, 2015

Christopher Freeman and James J. Berg, editors of the forthcoming volume The American Isherwood (January 2015), have compiled exemplary essays about writer Christopher Isherwood’s craft from their students to share on the Press blog leading up to the publication of their book. If you are attending the 2015 Modern Language Association conference in Vancouver, stop … More Students on Isherwood: "Come Again, Sir. I Don’t Get You," on death and dissociation in A Single Man

Ethical Geography: How abolitionists used spatial practice to reject their own authority

November 26, 2014

Ralph Waldo Emerson ca. 1857.  Photograph: George Eastman House Photography Collection BY MARTHA SCHOOLMANAssistant professor of English at Florida International University I. Toward a New New Abolitionism Abolitionism, the movement formulated in the United States north to bring about an immediate end to slavery in the US south, was, in its moment, the watchword for … More Ethical Geography: How abolitionists used spatial practice to reject their own authority

Where do cultures go when they die? The story of Codfish, the Indian, and the phonograph.

October 22, 2014

When the Edison phonograph was first made in the 1890s, people used it torecord their own voices. It later became one of the first commercially producedmachines when it was used to play music. It worked by vibrating the stylus up and downwhile moving across the wax cylinder (Hill & Dale method).Image credit: Museum of Technology. … More Where do cultures go when they die? The story of Codfish, the Indian, and the phonograph.

Students on Isherwood: "You Can’t Help Smiling," on Cabaret and Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin

October 10, 2014

Christopher Freeman and James J. Berg, editors of the forthcoming volume The American Isherwood (December 2014), have compiled exemplary essays about writer Christopher Isherwood’s craft from their students to share on the Press blog leading up to the publication of their book. This Monday, the authors will be reading at an event hosted by the University of … More Students on Isherwood: "You Can’t Help Smiling," on Cabaret and Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin

Despite that white students are no longer the numerical majority in U.S. schools, racial inequality persists.

September 10, 2014

BY GILDA L. OCHOAProfessor of sociology and Chicana/o-Latina/o studies at Pomona College Recently, much has been made about census reports that highlight how white students are no longer the numeric majority in U.S. public schools.  Awareness of these changes is important, but statistics on students’ racial demographics tell only part of the story. These demographic … More Despite that white students are no longer the numerical majority in U.S. schools, racial inequality persists.

Students on Isherwood: I Am George, a meditation on life and death in A Single Man.

August 26, 2014

Today marks the occasion of what would be Christopher Isherwood’s 110th birthday (born on August 26th, 1904). To honor this event, Christopher Freeman and James J. Berg, editors of the forthcoming volume The American Isherwood (December 2014), have compiled exemplary essays about Isherwood’s craft from their students to share on the Press blog on a … More Students on Isherwood: I Am George, a meditation on life and death in A Single Man.

Racial inequality remains etched into the very foundation of the U.S. interstate highway program and its cities.

July 10, 2014

A Los Angeles freeway in 2009. In his new book, Eric Avila digs into thecultural history of the U.S. interstate highway program.Image via Creative Commons. BY ERIC AVILAProfessor of history, Chicano studies, and urban planning at UCLA——- Avila is the author of The Folklore of the Freeway: Race and Revolt in the Modernist City, which … More Racial inequality remains etched into the very foundation of the U.S. interstate highway program and its cities.

Diane C. Fujino on getting to know Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014)

June 18, 2014

While on a book tour for Heartbeat of Struggle, Yuri Kochiyama and Diane Fujinospeak on April 24, 2005, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.Photo by Nobuyuki Okada. BY DIANE C. FUJINOProfessor of Asian American studies and director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa BarbaraAppearing in … More Diane C. Fujino on getting to know Yuri Kochiyama (1921–2014)

Black sexuality, the glass closet, and how the "down low" can never be one specific thing.

April 23, 2014

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the “down low”—black men whohave sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual—has exploded in media and popular culture. Wordle image source. BY C. RILEY SNORTONNorthwestern University Many of the ideas in Nobody is Supposed to Know emerged from hours … More Black sexuality, the glass closet, and how the "down low" can never be one specific thing.