American Studies

Philip J. Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Michigan. He is a former President of the American Studies Association, and he is the author of Indians in Unexpected Places and Playing Indian. Alexander I. Olson is an Assistant Professor in the Mahurin Honors College at Western Kentucky University, where he teaches history and social justice. His research examines creativity and place in American intellectual history.

Introduction: The Object of American Studies

PART ONE: HISTORIES

1 • History and Historiography
2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes
3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?)

PART TWO METHODS

4 • Methods and Methodology
5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit
6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit
7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit
8 • Power: A Th eoretical Toolkit

PART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP

9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments
10 • Dispenser: A Case Study

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index