Philip J. Deloria is the Carroll Smith-Rosenberg Collegiate Professor of American Culture and History at the University of Michigan. He is a former President of the American Studies Association, and he is the author of Indians in Unexpected Places and Playing Indian. Alexander I. Olson is an Assistant Professor in the Mahurin Honors College at Western Kentucky University, where he teaches history and social justice. His research examines creativity and place in American intellectual history.

• Introduction: The Object of American StudiesPART ONE: HISTORIES1 • History and Historiography2 • Four American Studies Mixtapes3 • An Institutional History of American Studies (Or, What’s the Matter with Mixtapes?)PART TWO METHODS4 • Methods and Methodology5 • Texts: An Interpretive Toolkit6 • Archives: A Curatorial Toolkit7 • Genres and Formations: An Analytical Toolkit8 • Power: A Th eoretical ToolkitPART THREE FROM JOTTING IT DOWN TO WRITING IT UP9 • A Few Thoughts on Ideas and Arguments10 • Dispenser: A Case StudyConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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