Elliott Bristow brings Road Dreams to Liverpool – Elliott Bristow was this year’s guest lecturer at the American Studies Resource Centre. Centre Director Bella Adams has written this report of a fascinating talk in which he spoke of his 500,000 mile (800,000 km) road trip around America, and showed excerpts from the Super 8 film diary which he made of his travels.
More than Sports: how Hubert H. Humphrey and the United Auto Workers Union helped to achieve the Desegregation of Bowling in America 1946-1950. – In the year in which Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, it is hard to believe that, less than 60 years ago, women and black people were not allowed to take part in professional bowling in the United States. Malina Iida and John Walter detail the long struggle of civil rights organisations, with the help of future Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and The United Auto Workers Union, to overcome the intransigent bigotry of the American Bowling Congress and end racial and sexual discrimination in the sport.
American Studies at the Hashemite University in Jordan: an Unfulfilled Dream – Professor Nazmi Al-Shalabi discusses the challenge and opportunities of teaching American Literature and Culture in a Jordanian University.
On Misconceptions and other Misdemeanors. The case for abolishing the term anti-Americanism – Is Anti-Americanism a valid definition of a point of view, or is it merely a gatekeeper, seeking to suppress criticism by excluding certain opinions from the ‘responsible’ debate? By examining the definitions attempted by a range of scholars and polemicists, Tabe Bergman seeks to find an answer.
Road Dreams Revisited 2007: From New York City to Los Angeles by camper-van – In the late summer of 2007, Helen Tamburro travelled across America with 12 strangers in a camper-van, and this is her graphic account of her experiences.
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