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American Studies in China: Old and New
ParadigmsBill V. Mullen
Map of Shifting U.S. Territory Frederick Jackson
Turner’s Frontier Thesis 1895
“Manifest Destiny” Westward Expansion American Empire
American Indian Tribal Territory “Manifest Destiny” and
the “Vanishing Indian” American Genocide Trail of Tears Wounded Knee American Indian
Movement (AIM)
Asher B. Durand “Pastoral Landscape” 1858
An example of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land
Example of “Myth and Symbol” school pastoralism
Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn 1885
American Pastoral in Literature
T.S. Eliot’s “River God”
Leo Marx’s Machine in the Garden
American Gothic Grant Wood A timeless expression
of American Pastoral Wood worked on the
Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression
American Slaves “Tobacco Farming”
Perry Miller Congo “Epiphany” Harvard Ph.D. Founder of American
Studies Myth and Symbol
School Pioneer The Puritans
Perry Miller Errand Into the Wilderness
Playing Indian---Why? American Colonists
dressed as Indians at the Boston Tea Party
The Boy Scouts of America dress as Indians
Philip Deloria Playing Indian
Martin Luther King 1968 March on
Washington Civil Rights Era “Breaking Apart” of
consensus New American Studies Race, Class, Gender,
Sexuality
Civil Rights Protest Integrating lunch
counters, Greensboro, North Carolina
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Black Nationalism
American Suffrage Movement Marching for the Right
to Vote 1920 Second Wave
American Feminism “The Personal is
Political”
Votes for Women
Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California Chinese American
Immigration “Gold Mountain” At America’s Gates by
Erika Lee What is an American?
Chinese immigrants to Angel IslandFour days before the Qiqiao
Festival,/ I boarded the steamship for America./ Time flew like a shooting arrow./ Already, a cool autumn has passed./ Counting on my fingers, several months have elapsed./ Still I am at the beginning of the road./ I have yet to be interrogated./ My heart is nervous with anticipation.
From Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.