American Studies in China: Old and New Paradigms Bill 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 Island Four 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,