UMBC American Studies Department
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The mission of UMBC’s Department of American Studies (AMST) is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American cultures through research, teaching, and service to the campus and community
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Item Homegrown Foodways Film Premiere: El Camino del Mole a New Orleans(The Library of Congress, 2023-11-14) Fouts, Sarah; Dahl, Andy; Lopez, FernandoBy day, Ivan worked in multiple restaurants always with the dream of opening his own business. By night, he served as a pillar for the LGBTQ migrant community梡utting on shows while helping his LGBTQ community with housing, healthcare, mental health, and immigration issues. He forged his own family through his LGBTQ community and he used his cooking to help fund these causes. These themes that celebrate the flamboyance, care, and food culture of Ivan, and of New Orleans, are at the heart of this filItem When 揇oing With� Can Be Without: Employing Critical Service-Learning Strategies in Creating the 揘ew Orleans Black Worker Organizing History� Digital Timeline(Indiana State University, 2024-08-22) Fouts, SarahAnalyzing the development of the 揘ew Orleans Black Worker Organizing History� digital humanities timeline, this case study addresses the inevitability of transient partnerships between students and community members, while pushing back on the notion of 揳uthentic relationships� in service learning. Embracing the ephemerality of service-learning projects, I focus more on intentional strategies that can lead to transformative learning experiences and help to create a more even playing field in knowledge production. I link critical service learning with feminist pedagogy to offer collaborative strategies that better leverage resources to bridge campus and community.Item Tip of the Tongue 114: Street Food - Historical and Modern(Tip of the Tongue, 2022-02-07) Williams, Liz; Fouts, SarahTip of the Tongue is a podcast on the Nitty Grits Network of the National Food & Beverage Foundation (NatFAB).Item Breakout Session 3: Project Neutral Grounds: At the Intersection of People, Street Food, and Hustle(UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities, 2022-10-15) Fouts, Sarah; L髉ez, Fernando; Lewis, Toya Ex2022 Inclusion Imperative Humanities SymposiumInclusion and Public Humanities:Challenges and Opportunities for Justice-Oriented Teaching and LearningFriday, April 8, 2022Project Neutral Grounds is an innovative partnership project exploring the history of and relationship between Black and Brown street-food vendors when navigating space and place in post-Katrina New Orleans. Panelists discussed the planning process for the project with its core collaborators and the ways we hold each other accountable. This project is a 揼raduation� of past projects, and we hope to illustrate how we build from our ineluctable mistakes and constant processes of checking in to do better as we design a public humanities methodological paradigm that is ethical, intentional, and collaborative.PresentersDr. Sarah Fouts, Assistant Professor and Director of Public Humanities Minor Program, Department of American Studies, UMBCFernando L髉ez, New Orleans-based Cultural DocumentarianToya Ex Lewis, Organizer, Southern Project HustleItem Sabor de Highlandtown(2024-06-27) Barrantes, Johanna; Fouts, SarahItem Rethinking Collaborative Public Humanities Research In New Orleans And Baltimore(UMBC News, 2022-07-08) Dansberger Duque, Catalina Sofia; Fernando LopezItem The Stain that Mardi Gras Covers Up: Worker Vulnerability in New Orleans(nacla, 2022-02-25) Fouts, Sarah; Daser, DenizThe October collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel building project in New Orleans demonstrates the city's willingness to ignore widespread labor precarity.Item New Film Project Follows Mexican Chefs in Baltimore and New Orleans(Baltimore Magazine, 2023-11-08) Hebron, GraceItem Solidarity Not Charity in the Crescent City: Politics, Power, and Food Distribution during Covid-19(Southern Foodways Alliance, 2020-09-18) Fouts, Sarah; L髉ez, FernandoItem Tip of the Tongue Episode 214: Project Neutral Grounds and more(2024-02-12) Williams, Liz; Fouts, SarahSarah Fouts and Fernando Lopez are documenting people who cook from marginalized groups in New Orleans and in Baltimore.Item 2023 Homegrown Foodways Film Series: Baltimore and New Orleans: Bringing Two Cities in Dialogue with Each Other through Mexican Food(The Library of Congress, 2023-10-30) Fouts, Sarah; Dahl, Andy; Lopex, FernandoItem Homegrown Foodways Film Premiere: El Camino del Pan a Baltimore(The Library of Congress, 2023-11-07) Fouts, Sarah; Dahl, Andy; Lopex, FernandoOriginally from Huaquechula, Mexico, Jos� continued his family抯 baking tradition upon arriving in Baltimore. His journey began in Mexico, where he worked in his grandparents� bakery. That work eventually evolved into selling bread from a pushcart in Baltimore抯 Patterson Park. He later established his first brick-and-mortar bakery in Greektown, amidst a declining and dubious Greek immigrant community. With the support of family and friends, Jos閽s vision expanded into a four-business enterprise that includes a bakery, taqueria, bar, and a restaurant.Item The Social Science of Reading for Pleasure with Dr. Tamara Bhalla and Jean Kim(UMBC Center for Social Science Research, 2024-07-10) Anson, Ian; Bhalla, Tamara; Kim, Jean; Anson,Ian; Mallinson,Christine; Stokan,Eric; Kim,Jean; Moreland,D’Juan; Barnes,Amy; Ralston,MyriamOn this episode, Dr. Anson speaks with Dr. Tamara Bhalla, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of American Studies at UMBC. Dr. Bhalla is also an affiliate faculty in the UMBC Asian Studies program. We also hear from Jean Kim, our very own podcast production assistant, about her role as a research assistant on Dr. Bhalla’s forthcoming book on the cultural context of reading.Item Save Our Block: Public Humanities, Zines, and the Connecting the Classroom in Baltimore(Routledge, 2024) King, P. NicoleItem Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative(UMBC News, 2024-04-03) Duque, Catalina Sofia Dansberger; Demond, MarlaynaItem "Me Time": Motherhood, Reading, and Myths of Leisure(Penn State University Press, 2023) Bhalla, Tamara; DiCuirci, LindsayIn this micro article, the authors survey the media landscape, including bestseller lists and celebrity book club culture, think pieces and mommy blogs, to examine the discourse around "me time," reading, and motherhood. The article explores how the cultivation of "me time," which is ostensibly about taking time away from mothering, returns mothers to the work of self-improvement, disguised as self-care. The books that mothers are reading (judged by their posts online, book awards, bestseller lists, book club culture, etc.) and the ways they are blogging about "me time" reading suggests that under the conditions of twenty-first-century neoliberalism, reading mothers must use this time to meditate upon and improve their mothering. "Me time" reading is framed as a separation from maternal labor but instead impels mothers to justify their solitary habit and redeem reading as a contribution to—rather than detraction from—family life.Item Rethinking the Field in Crisis: The Baltimore Field School and Building Ethical Community and University Partnerships(University of Georgia, 2024-04-04) King, P. Nicole; Mahdi, Tahira; Fouts, SarahThis Projects With Promise case study offers insights for addressing tensions between universities and communities in building partnerships and collectively rethinking “the field” of community engagement. We explore moving beyond a solely place-based understanding of “the field” into an ethos based on human interactions and mutual trust. Through an analysis of the Baltimore Field School (BFS) project, we argue that partnerships must be designed to create the time and space for self-reflexive qualitative methods that emerge from a personality-proof and sustainable infrastructure that can respond to crises and needs in both communities and universities. Rethinking and even “undoing” notions of institutional time and space within universities allows community-centered reflection that begins to cross the boundaries imposed by neoliberal institutions focused on profits above people. Exploring the distinct scholarly communities of higher education can inspire academics to rethink how universities can work with and not just for local communities.Item Lumbee Identity Is At The Center Of New Art Exhibit(WUNC North Carolina Public Radio, 2018-09-12) Magnus, Amanda; Stasio, Frank; Jones, Ashley Minner; Monroe, Alisha LocklearItem Celebrating Baltimore’s Native American Culture(WYPR, 2018-11-15) Kast, Sheilah; Harvie, Maureen; Jones, Ashley Minner; Seymour, DennisItem Greenville celebrates Native American art(The East Carolinian, 2019-02-20) Justice, Vincent