American studies Archives

Fabulous new books by Ideas on Fire authors about trans technologies, feminist STS, sonic gentrification, and more.

Exciting new books by Ideas on Fire authors about the racial politics of adoption, trans activism, hip-hop pedagogy, and more.

Awesome new books by Ideas on Fire authors about transpacific citizenship, South–South racial capitalism, video game cultures, and more.

We’re headed to Baltimore for the American Studies Association conference! Check out our booth and conference guide for awesome resources.

Awesome new books by Ideas on Fire authors about Black liberatory pedagogy, postconflict utopias, New Orleans dance cultures, and more.

Awesome new books by Ideas on Fire authors about queer crip California history, resisting anti-Asian violence, Disney theme parks, and more.

Cathy Hannabach interviews Raven Maragh-Lloyd about Black digital resistance strategies including cancel culture and Black Twitter.

Host Cathy Hannabach interviews media scholar Juan Llamas-Rodriguez about how representation of the US–Mexico border shapes public policy

Cathy Hannabach interviews Cynthia Franklin about movement politics, life writing, and radical solidarity beyond the human.

Cathy Hannabach interviews Katie Walkiewicz about the role of states’ rights in US settler colonialism, enslavement, and dispossession.

Cathy Hannabach interviews Jasmine Nichole Cobb about haptic blackness and the cultural politics of Black hair in US visual culture.

Cathy Hannabach interviews women’s and gender studies professor Mairead Sullivan about the histories and futures of lesbian feminism.

Resources: American studies