AMST 20100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nuclear Family, Helen Keller
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American studies is a field with a rich intellectual tradition of challenging the dominant narratives associated with americanness: devoted to challenging established systems. Epistemology: the study of knowledge and belief systems. As long as there has been an america, there has been american. Thomas jefferson"s notes on the state of virginia. The great depression in the 1930s led to a lot of disillusionment in. America: america wasn"t seen as the greatest or the land of opportunity anymore. World war ii is the start of established american studies: two factors associated with world war ii that establish. This leads to a united america: the arms race with the ussr creates a lot of tension, sense of exceptionalism (better than ussr) Myth and symbol school: looks at dominate myths and symbols that make america great: ex. nuclear family, prosperity, the frontier, 1940s to 1980s: this is the predominant way people approached american studies.
