American Studies in China: Old and New

ParadigmsBill V. Mullen

Map of Shifting U.S. Territory Frederick Jackson

Turner’s Frontier Thesis 1895

“Manifest Destiny” Westward Expansion American Empire

American Indian Tribal Territory “Manifest Destiny” and

the “Vanishing Indian” American Genocide Trail of Tears Wounded Knee American Indian

Movement (AIM)

Asher B. Durand “Pastoral Landscape” 1858

An example of Henry Nash Smith’s Virgin Land

Example of “Myth and Symbol” school pastoralism

Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn 1885

American Pastoral in Literature

T.S. Eliot’s “River God”

Leo Marx’s Machine in the Garden

American Gothic Grant Wood A timeless expression

of American Pastoral Wood worked on the

Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the Depression

American Slaves “Tobacco Farming”

Perry Miller Congo “Epiphany” Harvard Ph.D. Founder of American

Studies Myth and Symbol

School Pioneer The Puritans

Perry Miller Errand Into the Wilderness

Playing Indian---Why? American Colonists

dressed as Indians at the Boston Tea Party

The Boy Scouts of America dress as Indians

Philip Deloria Playing Indian

Martin Luther King 1968 March on

Washington Civil Rights Era “Breaking Apart” of

consensus New American Studies Race, Class, Gender,

Sexuality

Civil Rights Protest Integrating lunch

counters, Greensboro, North Carolina

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Black Nationalism

American Suffrage Movement Marching for the Right

to Vote 1920 Second Wave

American Feminism “The Personal is

Political”

Votes for Women

Angel Island Immigration Station, San Francisco, California Chinese American

Immigration “Gold Mountain” At America’s Gates by

Erika Lee What is an American?

Chinese immigrants to Angel IslandFour days before the Qiqiao

Festival,/ I boarded the steamship for America./ Time flew like a shooting arrow./ Already, a cool autumn has passed./ Counting on my fingers, several months have elapsed./ Still I am at the beginning of the road./ I have yet to be interrogated./ My heart is nervous with anticipation.

From Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940.