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"How do theories, methods, and scholarly practices shape major research projects currently underway in American Studies? In twenty original essays, the contributors to Projecting American Studies interrogate their ongoing work in various interdisciplinary contexts, shedding light on contemporary Americanist practices, styles, and publics."--Cover page 4

From Concerned Jewish Parents & Teachers of L.A. v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, decided yesterday by Judge Fernando Olguin (C.D. Cal.). An unincorporated association, the Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles, along with six individuals using the pseudonyms Jane or John Doe ("Doe plaintiffs") initiated this action …. [Their] claims revolve…

The author gave this talk as part of the Queering Ethnic Studies plenary session at the "Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide" conference, which was held at the University of California, Riverside, on March 10 to 12, 2011. The queering of the analysis of violence against youth is rooted in an understanding of violence that flows from projects that pathologize and brutalize youth regardless of race, class, gender, or sexuality. Social justice organizations such as Gender JUST, FIERCE, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and Queers for Economic Justice exemplify queer organizations that reject challenges to violence based on rights-based, individualistic approaches requiring special attention to LGBTQ victims and calling for criminalizing hate crime legislation and campus anti-bullying policies. Similar to other models of accountability explored in this issue, their remedies to violence must echo critiques and responses that reject the individualizing the criminalizing framework of the conventional anti-sexual assault and domestic violence movement. Instead, they call for a collective, community accountability response to state and intra-community violence. Adapted from the source document.

Theen reviews 'Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis' edited by Leokadia Drobizheva, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle Kelleher and Lee Walker.

The author explains why entertainment celebrities win and lose elections in the United States. Celebrities have the talent, fame, and resources to succeed in politics, but they often lose when the political environment is not favorable to their candidacy.

This document provides a transcript of the documentary video produced by the Asian American Studies Project at Brooklyn College in 2021. The documentary was created through student research, led by faculty member Cherry Lou Sy, which interrogated the lack of Asian American Studies at their institution. The video collects reflections and observations from numerous students, faculty, and alumni advocating for the development of an Asian American Studies program and curriculum. Participants also reflect on their experiences as Asian Americans, their support for the program, and/or their understanding of why the college has not developed this area of study.

American post-war Belarusian studies during its initial stage differed from similar processes in other countries. The CIA, which was interested in using the Belarusian emigration for its own purposes, the Congress, and some senators, with whom the leadership of the Belarusian- American Association actively worked, originally played a significant role. The CIA supported the activities of the Chairman of the Rada of the Belarusian People's Republic (in exile) Nikolai Abramchik, who was one of the first Belarusian emigrants to publicly declare Moscow's anti-Belarusian policy, using such concepts as the "Russian genocide of the Belarusian people", "occupation of Belarusian lands", etc., calling on America to "protect the oppressed Belarusian people". In 1954, a special commission of the Congress held hearings on the topic "The Communist seizure and occupation of Belarus", during which a kind of methodological guidelines for the "correct" study of the history of Belarus were determined. Against the background of McCarthyism and the fight against the "Red scare" allegedly coming from Moscow, it completely fitted into the so-called totalitarian concept in American Russian studies (then Sovietology), and hence Belarusian studies, which was being formed. It was in such a difficult political and ideological situation that the first study by N. P. Vakar "Belarus. The Creation of a Nation" was being created in the Russian Research Center of Harvard, which was published in 1956, and not only received general recognition in the American scholarly community, but also superseded all kinds of political pamphlets in the academic space.