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ISSN 2199-7268 MENU Skip to content * Home * Issues * Current Issue * Back Issues * ASJ Occasional Papers * AS Blog * About * Who We Are * Editors * Board of Advisors * Open Access * Submissions * Contact, Imprint * Privacy Policy Search for: * * * * * 1 2 3 4 5 The American Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that provides a forum for intellectual debate about all aspects of social, cultural, and political life in the United States of America. It aims to present new and challenging research in the humanities to both academic and non-academic audiences around the world. Three elements make up the asjournal.org web presence: the American Studies Journal with its offerings of scholarly and methodological content, the ASJ Occasional Papers series as a web space for longer articles that do not fit into the thematically focused issues of the journal, and the American Studies Blog with its topical observations and comments on present-day U.S. society and culture. CURRENT ISSUE No. 70 (2020) Digital Pedagogy in American Studies Edited by Ingrid Gessner and Uwe Küchler Continue reading → PRECEDING ISSUE No. 69 (2020) Miscellaneous Articles Edited by Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, and Hans-Jürgen Grabbe Continue reading → NEW ASJ OCCASIONAL PAPERS No. 18 (2020) Playing for Keeps: The Diggers, Life-Acting and Guerrilla Theater in San Francisco’s Psychedelic ‘60s by Sean Steele, York University (Toronto, Canada) The Diggers, a subversive subset of the broader American counterculture in San Francisco in the 1960s, stood for a unique form of anarchist theater. They presented a form of performance art they referred to as life-acting the game of freedom which was itself a form of what they dubbed guerrilla theater. The essay examines the Diggers as a unique element within the American counterculture that deserves a critical reappraisal. Continue reading → No. 17 (2020) Liquid Genealogy: Choice, Race, and Neoliberal Subjectivity in DNA Ancestry Advertising by Emma Jacobs, University of London, SOAS How does commercial DNA ancestry testing navigate the apparently conflicting ideologies of individual freedom and genealogical determinism? By exploring the cultural politics of this vast and growing industry and analyzing video advertisements by 23andMe and Ancestry.com, two key figures emerge in these adverts: the unexpectedly “not-quite-white” individual and the maximally “mixed-race” individual. Continue reading → UPCOMING ASJ OCCASIONAL PAPER UPCOMING THEMATIC ISSUE No. 71 (2021) Spending Time in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Ulrike Jordan, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT US “This journal, and this site, should be on the main screen of every educator’s experience. Tell one and tell all about it – it’s good, substantial, entertaining, and informative.” Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University, Magazines for Libraries Update 30 Jan. 2015. EDITORS Founding Editor: Hans-Jürgen Grabbe Executive Editors: Martina Kohl Andrew S. Gross Editors: Maria Moss Babette B. Tischleder more → Board of Advisors → BACK ISSUES No. 69 Miscellaneous Articles Edited by Heike Paul, Martina Kohl, and Hans-Jürgen Grabbe No. 68 Distance Matters: Approaching US Social Movements and Race/Ethnicity from a French Perspective Edited by Sandrine Baudry, Guillaume Marche, and Céline Planchou No. 67 Women’s Voices from the House of Time (Part II) Edited by Martina Kohl more → ASJ OCCASIONAL PAPERS The Fulbright Experience of Visiting Scholars from Post-Communist China: A Qualitative Study and a Critical Evaluation by Meirong Fu Fay Chong and Andrew Chinn: Asian Masters of American Art by James W. Ellis American Berlin Across the Last Century by Joshua Parker CURRENTLY LISTED IN * American Studies Journals * DOAJ * EBSCO * European American Studies Journals * EZB * Google Scholar * J-Gate * MLA International Bibliography American Studies Journal Current Issue Back Issues ASJ Occasional Papers Who We Are Editors Open Access Submission Guidelines Contact, Imprint Privacy Policy / Datenschutz American Studies Blog Facebook Twitter © 2007–2021 American Studies Journal