American Studies: A User's Guide

by Philip J. Deloria, Alexander I. Olson

-American Studies has long been a welcoming home for adventurous intellectuals. Whether blurring disciplines or fighting for social justice, students of the field have generated new ways of understanding the culture and politics of the United States in a global context. But what happens when these innovations become widely adopted? Can a shared set of -rules- become a springboard to creativity? Ideal for classroom use, American A User's Guide offers a critical introduction to the history and methods of the field useful strategies for textual interpretation, archive building, contextualization, comparative analysis, and theory interwoven toolkits that provide the basic framework necessary to understanding the field---Provided by publisher.

457 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 22, 2017

About the author

Philip J. Deloria is Professor of History at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context.

Reviews

[Jehnie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Skimmed as needed.
This could be a great text for students in a cultural studies/history class. It has a lot of depth and analysis about how to approach cultural studies but it doesn't drag and get mired in theory.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun and accessible entry into the field of American Studies.

[Selena]

I like non-academic writing but this was too casual. Thankfully only read a couple chapters for class.

[Clarke · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty helpful, but sometimes the authors' tone was a little hard to take seriously.

[Mia DiLorenzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Phil. Thoroughly enjoyed your work (please give me an A).