AMST Through the Years
The events of this decade inspired some of the most dramatic changes within institutions of American Studies, proving George Lipsitz's argument that American Studies is discipline that “monitors, registers and responds to lived social experience”
The 1960s
A scholar whose theory of the "borderlands" exemplifies the "Transnational Turn" in American Studies
Gloria Anzaldúa
We could consider the development of European American Studies institutes a product of __________
The Cold War/American cultural imperialism/post WWII patriotism
Mary Helen Washington highlights this as the central irony of her ASA presidential address
She is not an "American Studies" scholar
This scholar first identified "the problem of method" in American Studies in his 1957 article
Henry Nash Smith
The Executive Council of the American Studies Association passed a resolution formally stating its opposition to discrimination against women in this yea
1969
This scholar critiqued the Myth and Symbol school for their presentism
Bruce Kuklick
This group of scholars was noticeably absent from the initial meetings of the ASA's Radical Caucus in 1969
Black scholars
This scholar began their presidential address by discussing an outburst at the 1975 Bicentennial World Regional Conference in Salzburg
Allen Davis
We can thank these scholars for creating what is perhaps the only unified methodological approach to American Studies in the history of the discipline
Myth and Symbol School
The year that the ASA elected its first Black president
1997 (John Hope Franklin was appointed in 1967)
This theory shaped the methods and approaches of the Myth and Symbol school, particularly the desire to find an "American Mind" or "American Character"
Holism
Beginning in 1949, these two benefactors made large grants to support the development of American Studies programs in a half dozen colleges and universities
The Carnegie Corporation and the Coe Foundation
This scholar used their presidential address to discuss the tensions between resistance to diversity and "hospitality to diversity" within the history of American Studies
Linda Kerber
The title that Jay Mechling, Robert Meredith, and David Wilson proposed in 1973 as a new name for the discipline of American Studies
American Culture Studies
In this year, Vicki Ruiz argued that the American Studies association was the "home of choice" for most Chicano/a scholars
1997
Mary Helen Washington evokes this theory to emphasize scholars' capacity to institutionalize inter-ethnic, inter-racial, and multi-cultural paradigms and "make ASA a liberated and liberating institutional space"
Wonderful Thinking
Davis argues that Connections, the publication of the ASA's Radical Caucus, inspired much _______ within American Studies
first-person perspective scholarship
This scholar used their presidential address to advocate for a broader definition of "America"
Alice Kessler-Harris
Cecil Tate published his evaluation of the Myth and Symbol school in this 1973 book
The Search for a Method in American Studies
Name at least two ways American Studies scholars responded to the "Culture Wars" of the 1990s
Emphasizing the importance of multiculturalism
Expanding notions of “America”
Innovating transnational approaches to American Studies
Name the scholar(s) that Gene Wise positions as emblematic of each of the "Paradigm Dramas" in American Studies
Paradigm 1: Vernon Parrington
Paradigm 2: Perry Miller
Paradigm 3: Robert Spiller & Thomas Cochran
Paradigm 4: Robert Meredith
The 1971 founding of this organization demonstrates American Studies scholars' historical commitment to community-based work
National American Studies Faculty (NASF)
Name the three cultural texts Mary Helen Washington analyzes in her presidential address
Wedding Band, Octaroon, Lone Star
collaborative research, or the creation of an interactive global research community