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Dedicated to highlighting currents of North American Studies in Germany.Also on spotify and itunes, or follow Talking American Studies on twitter/facebook/instagram!About the host/creator: I'm Verena Adamik, and I teach and research American Studies at the University of Potsdam. For my PhD project, I investigated the link between the United States' national narrative and utopianism by looking at fictional renditions of utopian communities (i.e. 'communes') in the nineteenth century. I am currently turning some of my findings into a book. Further research interests include horror fiction and African American writing, specifically sf, horror, and literary responses to White supremacist discourse. Because I miss going to seminars and lectures, I decided to just get scholars to spill their intellectual beans in this podcast.

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White Supremacy (COPAS special issue) with S. Spatzek and C. Essi

March 20, 2020 • Verena Adamik (and others) • Season 1 • Episode 6

In this episode we are talking White Supremacy in American Studies: Cedric Essi (https://www.lili.uni-osnabrueck.de/institut_fuer_anglistikamerikanistik/lehre/lehrende/mitarbeiterdetails.html) and Samira Spatzek (http://www.fb10.uni-bremen.de/lehrpersonal/spatzek.aspx) are discussing the newest issue of COPAS – Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, which features the work of early career scholars, this time on Whiteness and White Supremacy.

Works Cited and Recommended

The special issue White Supremacy in the USA, with articles by Axelle Germanaz, Cord-Heinrich Plinke, Nele Sawallisch, Rahab Njeri, Mariya Dimitrova Nikolova andTill Kadritzke is now available under www.copas.uni-regensburg.de

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Arghavan, Mahmoud, Nicole Hirschfelder, and Katharina Motyl. “Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany: A Survey of the Issues at Stake.” Who Can Speak and Who Is Heard/Hurt? Facing Problems of Race, Racism, and Ethnic Diversity in the Humanities in Germany. Transcript, 2019, pp. 9-42.

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. 2008.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. 2010.

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Jones-Rogers, Stephanie. They Were Her Property. White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. 2019.

Kuppan, Viji. “Crippin’ Blackness: Narratives of Disabled People of Color from Slavery to Trump.” The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicity Racial Violence. 2018.

McRae, Elizabeth Gillespie. Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy. 2018.

Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. 1997.

Mitchell, David, and Sharon Snyder. “The Eugenic Atlantic: Race, Disability, and the Making of an International Eugenic Science, 1800-1945.” Disability and Society, vol. 18, no. 7, 2003.

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