"Forget the damned motorcar and build cities for lovers and friends."
-Lewis Mumford

The mission of the Kennesaw American Studies Alliance is the promotion of studies of the people and cultures of all parts of the Americas, their histories, interactions, and current affairs, through the encouragement of scholarship, teaching, publication, community work, and the strengthening of relations among persons and institutions who share these goals.  

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American Studies uses the tools of history, literature and criticism, philosophy, folklore, cultural and ethnic studies, anthropology, political science, gender studies, and cultural studies to rip the lids off the texts and narratives of the complex societies we live in and examine the realities within them.  We study the way things work and how they perform work – the built environment, fashions, film and the internet, regional cultures and migrations, academia and cultural distinction, hot rods, wars, elections, art, popular music, immigrants and the descendents of immigrants, bestselling novels, racism and nationalism, American Jazz, power structures and countercultures; everything that plays into the complex dynamic of American life.

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