Australasian Journal of American Studies

Year 2006

• Vol.25, No.1, July 2006

• Vol.25, No.2, December 2006

July 2006

Articles

BRIAN EDWARDS
Playful Learning: Melville’s Artful Art in Moby-Dick [1-13]
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PRUDENCE FLOWERS
White Ribboners and the Ideology of Separate Spheres, 1860s – 1890s [14-31]
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ANN MCCARTHY
Inside Stories: Representing Okanogan Oral History through Fiction in
the Era of Indian Assimilation [32-48]
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DOUGLAS CRAIG
Newton D. Baker and the Democratic Malaise, 1920-1937 [49-61]
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TIMOTHY J. MINCHIN
Beyond the Dominant Narrative: The Ongoing Struggle for Civil Rights
in the US South, 1968-1980 [62-86]

Teaching American Studies
TEACHING POPULAR MUSIC AND HIP HOP CULTURES

PAUL TAILLON
Introduction [101-102]
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VERNON ANDREWS
American Studies 111, Hip-Hop Culture Coming Soon to a Classroom Near You? [103-114]
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KIRSTEN ZEMKE-WHITE
‘Issues and History in Popular Music’ POPMUS 106 Learning Critical Theory by Exploring the Familiar [115-124]
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Norman Harper Essay

GREGORY BRITTON
September 11 American ‘Exceptionalism’ and the War in Iraq [125-141]
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Book Reviews

STEVEN ANGELIDES
Stephen Robertson, Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 [87-89]

BRIAN EDWARDS
Michael Chabon, The Best American Short Stories [89-92]

MICHELLE LANGFORD
Paula Rabinowitz, Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism [92-95]

IAN BRAILSFORD
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter, Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture [95-97]

December 2006

Articles

GREG DENING
Performing Cross-Culturally [1-11]
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STAN GOTTSCHALK
Pete Seeger, the 5-String Banjo and American Culture [12-22]
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PETER R. PETRUCCI & MICHAEL HEAD
Hurricane Katrina’s Lexical Storm: the Use of Refugee as a Label for American Citizens [23-39]
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DENNIS PHILLIPS
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The Bush Administration and ‘The Rule of Law’ [40-51]
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Forum: Regarding Gore Vidal
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HEATHER NEILSON
Introduction [52]

BRIAN EDWARDS
Stephen Harris, Gore Vidal’s Historical Novels and the Shaping of American Political Consciousness [53-55]

STEPHEN HARRIS
Dennis Altman, Gore Vidal’s America [56-59]

HEATHER NEILSON
Marcie Frank, How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV: the Lessons of Gore Vidal [60-62]

Teaching American Studies
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STEPHEN ROBERTSON AND PAUL TAILLON
Introduction [63-64]

JULIAN MURPHET
Postmodernism as American Studies [65-76]

LEONARD WILCOX
Hard-Boiled L.A. in New Zealand: American Studies 223/326, ‘Figuring Los Angeles: From Modernism to Postmodernism’ [77-83]

Review Essays

GREGORY SMITHERS
The ‘Old Cock’ and Black ‘Doll’: A Cherokee-Black Marriage in the Nineteenth-Century United States [84-90]

ETHAN BLUE
Gordian Knots and Recent Work on the American Prison Complex [91-101]

Book Reviews

EILEEN CHANIN
John Updike, Still Looking, Essays on American Art  [102-106]

JAN PILDITCH
Shirley Geok-lin Lim, John Blair Gamber, Stephen Hong Sohn and Gina Valentino (eds.), Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits [105-108]

BRIAN EDWARDS
Cormac McCarthy, The Road  [107-111]

CRISTYN DAVIES
David Román, Performance In America: Contemporary US Culture and the Performing Arts [111-114]

MICHAEL A. MCDONNELL
Donna Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in  New Netherland  [114-117]

AMANDA LAUGESEN
Philip J. Deloria and Neal Salisbury (eds.), A Companion to American Indian History            [117-119]

STEPHEN HARRIS
John B. Boles (ed.), A Companion to The American South [119-122]

ALDONA SENDZIKAS
Erica Rand, The Ellis Island Snow Globe [122-124]

IAN GORDON
Daniel Thomas Cook., The Commodification of Childhood: The Children's Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer [124-126]

FIONA DEANS HALLORAN
Michael Zakim, Ready-Made Democracy: A History of Men’s Dress in the American Republic, 1760-1860 [126-128]

BRAHAM DABSCHECK
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age            [128-130]

PETER SCHRIJVERS
Salim Yaqub, Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East  [131-133]

EILEEN CHANIN
Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58 [133-135]

ALISON BASHFORD
Mae M. Ngai,Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America            [136-137]

YANNICK THORAVAL
Trevor McCrisken and Andrew Pepper, American HistorycAnd Contemporary Hollywood Film [138-139]

IAN BRAILSFORD
Patrick Allitt, I’m the Teacher, You’re the Student: A Semester in the University Classroom [139-141]

Resources

IAN GORDON
New Resources: Internet Archives [142-143]