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Hanging by a Thread: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Complexities of Memorializing and Mourning Lynching in America 命悬一线国家和平与正义纪念馆以及纪念和悼念美国私刑的复杂性

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000033

MIA BLAINEY

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Rainbow Serpents and Boiling Springs: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Fight for Groundwater in the United States and Australia 彩虹蛇与沸泉：美国和澳大利亚的土著主权与地下水之争

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Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000148

GREGORY SMITHERS, SUSANNAH HOPSON

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The Ethno-economy: Peter Brimelow and the Capitalism of the Far Right 民族经济：彼得-布里梅洛与极右翼资本主义

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1017/s002187582400015x

QUINN SLOBODIAN

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Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction Scopes、Specula、the Speculative：非裔美国人艺术和小说中的医学实验和观察史

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Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000136

JENNIFER TERRY

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“To Use This Word … Would Be Absurd”: How the Brainwashing Label Threatened and Enabled the Troubled-Teen Industry "使用这个词......是荒谬的"：洗脑 "标签如何威胁并支持问题少年产业

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Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000112

MARK M. CHATFIELD

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The “Open Sore of America”: Race and the American Congo Reform Movement, 1885–1908 美国的开放之疮"：种族与美国刚果改革运动，1885-1908 年

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000100

Dean Clay

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Sub-Urban or Post-Rural: Suburban Development as a Two-Way Street in the Mid-Twentieth Century 次城市还是后农村：二十世纪中叶作为双行道的郊区发展

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875824000021

Steven Conn

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Blackface Shakespeare: Thomas D. Rice and the Return of Jim Crow as Otello 黑脸莎士比亚托马斯-D-赖斯和吉姆-克劳饰演的奥赛罗的回归

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI: 10.1017/s002187582400001x

ADAM KITZES

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Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization 二十世纪初美国白人文明叙事中的种族野蛮建构

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000610

MARGARITA ARAGON

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Reading America, Reading Rodriguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group 阅读美国，阅读罗德里格斯：在英语监狱读书小组探索美国文学

IF 0.3 3区社会学

Journal of American Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-08 DOI: 10.1017/s0021875823000579

JOSEPHINE METCALF, LAURA SKINNER

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