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Academic Programs
Major
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Requirements
Why Major in American Studies
Minors
Asian Pacific American Studies Minor
Latinx Studies Minor
Native American Indigenous Studies Minor
Additional
Distinguished Majors Program
Graduate Certificate
Courses
People
Core Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Teaching Faculty
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Publications
Cross Cultural Harlem: Reimagining Race and Place
Sandhya Shukla
Columbia University Press (2024)
In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Little, Brown and Company (2023)
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2023)
Colonial Racial Capitalism
Lisa Marie Cacho
Duke University Press (2022)
Paradoxes of Nostalgia: Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989
Penny Von Eschen
Duke University Press (2022)
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature, Translation, and Historiography
Oxford University Press (2021)
Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Grace Elizabeth Hale
University of North Carolina Press (2020)
Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
Jack Hamilton
Harvard University Press (2016)
The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
Matthew S. Hedstrom
Oxford University Press (2015)
Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York
Fiona Ngô
Duke University Press (2014)
The Unsettlement of America Translation, Interpretation, and the Story of Don Luis de Velasco, 1560-1945
Anna Brickhouse
Oxford University Press (2014)
Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected
Lisa Marie Cacho
NYU Press (2012)
Shantytown, USA: Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor
Lisa Goff
Harvard University Press (2012)
The Oriental Obscene: Violence and Racial Fantasies in the Vietnam Era
Sylvia Chong
Duke University Press (2011)
American Pietàs: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal
Ruby C. Tapia
University of Minnesota Press (2011)
Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois
Lawrie Balfour
Oxford University Press (2011)
Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
Karl Hagstrom Miller
Duke University Press (2010)
Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature
Jennifer Greeson
Harvard University Press (2010)
A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Oxford University Press (2010)
Imagining our Americas: Toward a Transnational Frame
Sandhya Shukla
Duke University Press (2007)
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
Anna Brickhouse
Cambridge University Press (2005)
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
Penny Von Eschen
Harvard University Press (2004)
India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England
Sandhya Shukla
Princeton University Press (2003)
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy
Lawrie Balfour
Cornell University Press (2001)
Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1980-1940
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Penguin Random House (1998)
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937–1957
Penny Von Eschen
Cornell University Press (1997)
How Police Abuse the Charge of Resisting Arrest
Lisa Marie Cacho
Boston Review
