American Studies Program
By Stanford University
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Description
The Program in American Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that seeks to convey a broad understanding of American culture and society in all their complexity. Building on a foundation of courses in history and institutions, literature and the arts, and race and ethnicity, students bring a range of disciplines to bear on their efforts to analyze and interpret America's past and present, forging fresh and creative syntheses along the way.
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| 1 | VideoBoy-men at "The Office" | A panel of staff members from the television show "The Office" talk about the genesis of the show, it's progression over time, and the way they see it changing in the future. (November 12, 2010) | 11/1/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) | Siva Vaidhyanathan talks about the evolving culture of America and the internet and how Google represents the growing trends in our society. (May 16, 2011) | 6/2/2011 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: Legacies (Video) | Elizabeth Alexander, “Dunbar Today: Exploring the Ongoing Influence of Dunbar on Contemporary African-American Poetry;” Donna Akiba Harper, “Dunbar's Influences on Langston Hughes;” Harryette Mullen, "‘When He is Least Himself." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: Traveling and Abroad (Video) | Adrian Gaskins, “From Dayton to Dahomey to Denver: Dunbar's Travels and the Movement of New Negroes in the Early Twentieth Century;” Blair L.M. Kelley." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond Blackness (Video) | Jennifer James, “Dunbar's ‘The Fanatics’ and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative;” Gene Jarrett, “Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist;” Thomas Leuchtenmüller, "'Tis thy breath perfumes the air." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: The Racial Politics of the Nadir (Video) | James Smethhurst, “Dunbar and African American Dualism;” Jennifer Terry, "’When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers’: Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: This Man Shall Be Remembered (Video) | Joanne Braxton, “Dunbar, the Originator;” Joanne Gabbin, “Intimate Intercessions: The Poetry of Dunbar;” Elizabeth McHenry, “Beyond the Presence of Dunbar;” Greg Robinson and Lillian Robinson, “Dunbar, A Credit to His Race." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: This Man Shall Be Remembered (Audio) | Joanne Braxton, “Dunbar, the Originator;” Joanne Gabbin, “Intimate Intercessions: The Poetry of Dunbar;” Elizabeth McHenry, “Beyond the Presence of Dunbar;” Greg Robinson and Lillian Robinson, “Dunbar, A Credit to His Race." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Racial Politics of the Nadir (Audio) | James Smethhurst, “Dunbar and African American Dualism;” Jennifer Terry, "’When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers’: Dunbar's Poetic Engagement with the Civil War and Violence." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond Blackness (Audio) | Jennifer James, “Dunbar's ‘The Fanatics’ and the Post-Civil War Reconciliation Narrative;” Gene Jarrett, “Second-Generation Realist; or, Dunbar the Naturalist." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Traveling and Abroad (Audio) | Adrian Gaskins, “From Dayton to Dahomey to Denver: Dunbar's Travels and the Movement of New Negroes in the Early Twentieth Century." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Legacies (Audio) | Elizabeth Alexander, “Dunbar Today: Exploring the Ongoing Influence of Dunbar on Contemporary African-American Poetry;” Donna Akiba Harper, “Dunbar's Influences on Langston Hughes;” Harryette Mullen, "‘When He is Least Himself." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoFactoring Out Race: The Cultural Context of Dunbar (Video) | David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America’s first professional African American Writer in a lecture on ““Factoring Out Race." (March 11, 2006) i | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Factoring Out Race: The Cultural Context of Dunbar (Audio) | David Bradley, award-winning author of The Chaneysville Incident, reappraises the way we read and understand America’s first professional African American Writer in a lecture on ““Factoring Out Race." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoFraming Dunbar (Video) | William J. Maxwell, “Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and International Modernism;” Ray Sapirstein, “Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics: The Poet's Collaboration with the Hampton Camera Club." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Framing Dunbar (Audio) | William J. Maxwell, “Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and International Modernism;” Ray Sapirstein, “Picturing Dunbar's Lyrics: The Poet's Collaboration with the Hampton Camera Club." (March 11, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoDunbar's Children (Lecture and Performance) (Video) | Lecture on Dunbar’s writing for and about children by Michele Elam followed by performance by Stanford students of Dunbar’s poems about and for children directed by Harry Elam and assistant director Jo-Issa Diop. (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: Faith and Folklore | Marcellus Blount, “Slavery Remembered: Dunbar and the African American Elegy;” Michael Cohen, “Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect;” Yolanda Pierce, “That Old Time Religion: An Afro-Christian Faith Tradition in Dunbar's Short Stories." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoPaul Laurence Dunbar: Realism, Humor, Dialect (Video) | Jennifer Hughes, “Representing ‘A Ghastly Humor’: The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics;” John Lowe, “Exploding the Laughing Barrel: Dunbar and American Humor." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Dunbar's Children (Lecture and Performance) (Audio) | (March 10, 2006) Lecture on Dunbar’s writing for and about children by Michele Elam followed by performance by Stanford students of Dunbar’s poems about and for children directed by Harry Elam and assistant director Jo-Issa Diop. | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Faith and Folklore (Audio) | (March 10, 2006) Marcellus Blount, “Slavery Remembered: Dunbar and the African American Elegy;” Michael Cohen, “Dunbar and the Genres of Dialect;” Yolanda Pierce, “That Old Time Religion: An Afro-Christian Faith Tradition in Dunbar's Short Stories." | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Realism, Humor, Dialect (Audio) | Jennifer Hughes, “Representing ‘A Ghastly Humor’: The Politics of Incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics;” John Lowe, “Exploding the Laughing Barrel: Dunbar and American Humor." (March 10, 2006) | 9/15/2008 | Free | View in iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
The Content Presented Is Extremely Outdated and Irrelevant.
If you want to fear the future, examine history from the point of view presented in this series. Rampant Google-bashing and old social commentary. Fails to mention that Google has answered all of our questions for 12 years, never asked for a penny from anyone and keeps getting better. Acknowledges Google has changed America but fails to note that it united the world in the act of asking for information and expecting a response. The worthwhile critical approach to Google is not to compare it to Austin Powers' Dr evil, or the communist USSR, but to examine the correlations between Google Inc. and Christianity's messiah prophecy. Don't you Google every day?
