American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, history, society, and culture.[1] It traditionally incorporates literary criticism, historiography and critical theory.
Scholarship in American studies focuses on the United States. In the past decades, however, it has also broadened to include Atlantic history and interactions with countries across the globe.[2] Subjects studied within the field are varied, but often examine the literary themes, histories of American communities, ideologies, or cultural productions. Examples might include topics in American social movements, literature, media, tourism, folklore, and intellectual history.
Fields studying specific American ethnic or racial groups are considered to be both independent of and included within the broader American studies discipline. This includes European American studies, African American studies, Latino studies, Asian American studies, American Indian studies, and others.
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Advanced Placement (AP) African AmericanStudies (also known as APAAS, APAFAM, or AP Afro) is a pilot college-level course and examination offered to a...
Asian Americans. It is closely related to other Ethnic Studies fields, such as African AmericanStudies, Latino Studies, and Native AmericanStudies. Since...
such studies, and the broadening of knowledge among the general public about American culture in all its diversity and complexity. Americanstudies departments...
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The Fund for AmericanStudies (TFAS) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1967, the organization's mission is to educate students...
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Teaching and research in German Americanstudies is mostly done on the level of universities. Many English studies departments have one or more professorships...
Germany The Center for American Stuides at the Royal Library of Belgium Various other institutes described at Americanstudies This disambiguation page...
The Journal of AmericanStudies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering international perspectives on the history, literature, politics...
theory, film/video studies, communication studies, political economy, translation studies, museum studies and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena...
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Marking Asian American Differences". In Ono, Kent A. (ed.). A Companion to Asian AmericanStudies. Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies. John Wiley...
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related to this article: Studies in Classic American Literature Studies in Classic American Literature from AmericanStudies at the University of Virginia...
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including Latin Americanstudies, Texana, anthropology, U.S. Latino studies, Native Americanstudies, African Americanstudies, film & media studies, classics...
1831. The earliest documented use of the specific term "American exceptionalism" is by American communists in intra-communist disputes in the late 1920s...
schools and represent fields as diverse as American history, social geography, American literature, gender studies, and the digital humanities. The Institute...
(1966). Andrew Yox, "The German-American Community as a Nationality, 1880–1940", Yearbook of German-AmericanStudies 2001 36: 181–193; Kazal (2004) Lucile...
minorities has been present throughout American history. Leland T. Saito, Associate Professor of Sociology and AmericanStudies & Ethnicity at the University of...
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who have full or partial Italian ancestry. According to the Italian AmericanStudies Association, the current population is about 18 million, an increase...
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