[A Recap of the month that was in AmericanStudying.]
March
1: Superhero Comics: Captain America: For Cap’s 80th birthday, a
superhero series kicks off with how that timing helps us remember the
aspirational and political roles of superhero comics.
March
2: Superhero Comics: Batman and Superman: The series continues with two
distinct AmericanStudies contrasts between our two most enduring superheroes.
March
3: Superhero Comics: Wonder Woman: The ambiguous creation, evolution, and
cultural images of our first female superhero, as the series fights on.
March
4: Superhero Comics: Black Panther: On Black Powers, super- and political.
March
5: Superhero Comics: The Punisher: The series concludes with the character
whose ambiguous heroism illustrates a fundamental American duality.
March
6-7: Superhero Comics: Watchmen: A special weekend post, sharing student responses
to the meta-superheroic graphic novel!
March
8: Spring Break Films: Spring Break: A series on Spring Break films kicks
off with 1983’s Spring Break and more
and less destructive pop culture stereotypes.
March
9: Spring Break Films: Spring Breakers: The series continues with 2012’s Spring Breakers and the fine line
between challenging and exploiting female objectification.
March
10: Spring Break Films: From Justin to Kelly: What wasn’t new about the
historic beach bomb, and what was, as the series parties on.
March
11: Spring Break Films: Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise:
American intellectualism and the worse and better ways to challenge it.
March
12: Spring Break Films: Baywatch: The series concludes with why those
beautiful beach bodies are also a body of AmericanStudies evidence.
March
13-14: Of Thee I Sing Update!: Ahead of my new book’s March 15th
release date, an update on where and how you can get your hands on it (the discount
code still works)!
March
15: Models of Critical Patriotism: “What to the Slave is the 4th of
July?”: A book release series on models of critical patriotism kicks off
with Frederick Douglass’ stunning speech.
March
16: Models of Critical Patriotism: “Eulogy on King Philip”: The series
continues with a speech that offers two complementary models.
March
17: Models of Critical Patriotism: Suffrage Activists at the Centennial
Exposition: National divisions and critical patriotism at America’s 100th
birthday bash, as the series reads on.
March
18: Models of Critical Patriotism: America is in the Heart: An author and
book that both introduce under-narrated histories and redefine American
identity.
March
19: Models of Critical Patriotism: MLK and Baldwin, Kaepernick and the 1619
Project: The series concludes with 21st figures and works that
extend the legacies of critical patriotism.
March
20-21: Sharing Of Thee I Sing: A few more details on where and how I’m
working to share the book, and how you can help me do so!
March
22: Indigenous New England: The Wampanoag: For the 400th
anniversary of a foundational treaty, a series on Indigenous New England kicks
off with sources & voices from whom I’ve learned about the Wampanoag.
March
23: Indigenous New England: Tisquantum: The series continues with the most
inspiring and most horrific sides to a foundational American life, and how to
remember both.
March
24: Indigenous New England: The Peace Treaty: An English account of the
1621 treaty and how we need to go beyond it, as the series rolls on.
March
25: Indigenous New England: The Mystic Massacre: Three texts that help us
remember one of 17th century America’s darkest histories.
March
26: Indigenous New England: Brothers Among Nations: The series concludes
with a distinct and more inspiring vision of the arrival and contact era.
March
27-28: Reframing the Pilgrims: A special weekend post on how the week’s
histories can help us reframe the New England Puritans, and how I still need to
go beyond that frame.
March
29: Key & Peele Studying: Negrotown: An April Fool’s series on the comic
geniuses kicks off with the many layers to the sketch that first made me fall
in love with Key & Peele.
March
30: Key & Peele Studying: Luther: The series continues with one of the
smartest comic ideas ever, and the stunning political moment it produced.
March
31: Key & Peele Studying: Country Music: What a silly sketch helps us
see about country music’s frustrating race problem, as the series laughs on.
April
1: Key & Peele Studying: Substitute Teacher: How great comedy both
reinforces yet can transcend cultural stereotypes.
April
2: Key & Peele Studying: Five More Sketches: The series concludes with
five more hilarious and provocative Key & Peele sketches.
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Topics you’d
like to see covered in this space? Guest Posts you’d like to contribute? Lemme know!
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