The Journal of American Culture

The official publication of the American Culture Association

Edited by:
Kathy Merlock Jackson

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Multidisciplinary in focus, The Journal of American Culture combines studies of American literature, history, and the arts, with studies of the popular, the taken-for-granted, and the ordinary pieces of American life, to produce analyses of American culture with a breadth and holism lacking in traditional American studies. 

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Online Content Now Available Back to Volume 1 (1978)
All back issues of this journal are available online.  Click here to browse contents and abstracts.  For further information on how to access these issues please visit our Librarian Site.

Announcing the 2008 winner of The William M. Jones Award for the Best Graduate Student Paper:
Be-in-tween the Spa[ ]ces: The Location of Women and Subversion in Jazz, Victoria Willis
This paper will be published in Volume 31 Issue 3 of The Journal of American Culture.

The editor of The Journal of American Culture invites submissions for the award for the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Culture Association.  Papers must be submitted by January 1, 2009.  Please send three copies of your paper, as well as a disc and photocopy of your student identification card.  Those concerned for their privacy may obscure the Social Security number should it appear on the card.  Papers should address American culture and/or be accepted for an ACA panel.  The winning paper must be presented at the 2009 ACA Meeting in New Orleans, where the award and a $500 stipend will be presented.  Should the winning paper not be presented in person, the award will be forfeited.  We also invite the winning author to submit the essay to The Journal of American Culture and work with the editor toward its publication. 

The Journal of Popular Culture is offering a similar award.  For more information on this, please contact its editor, Dr. Gary Hoppenstand (hoppens2@msu.edu).  In any event, please do not submit the same essay to both publications. 

Please submit your entry to Amy Dudley, Editorial Assistant, William M. Jones Graduate Student Paper Award Selection Committee, The Journal of American Culture, Virginia Wesleyan College, 1584 Wesleyan Drive, Norfolk, VA 23502.

Dr. Kathy Merlock Jackson
Editor, The Journal of American Culture

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TopHighlights

Reading Route 66
J.N. Nodelman

Tracking Changes in Jack London's Representation of the Railroad Tramp
Christine Photinos

Celebration, USA: The First Sign of What Will Be America's Homogeneous Landscape
Matt Thomas

From Instruction to Consumption: Architecture and Design in Hollywood Movies of the 1930s
Gabrielle Esperdy

A Mad Proposition in Postwar America
Kristin L. Matthews

Every Picture Tells a Story: Racial Representation on Sports Illustrated Covers
Eric Primm, Summer DuBois, and Robert Regoli