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AmeriQuests is a forum for writing and research about real and metaphorical quests towards “America,” defined as either an absolute but an achievable objective, or as some place in the Americas. A peer-reviewed, multi-and inter-disciplinary e-journal, AmeriQuests was founded by Robert Barsky to contribute in original and creative fashions to the humanities, the social sciences, law, medicine, business and social justice. Contributions may focus on questions of dislocation, relocation, displacement, homelessness, American dreams and border crossings of all sorts, from the geographical and the social to the psychological. AmeriQuests also features special issues, student issues, book reviews and discussion sections to add to its immediacy, its allure and its relevance. Submissions are accepted on an on-going basis in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish. Call for Papers Migration of Movement: Dance Across Americas "Dance in the Americas," a special issue devoted to all genres and facets of dance through the Americas. We welcome articles, reviews and also mixed-media contributions aimed at assessing historical, contemporary or forthcoming trends and approaches to dance. Guest Editor: Marsha Tardy Assistant Professor of Dance, Middle Tennessee State University. Contact mtardy@mtsu.edu. Deadline for submissions, July 1, 2008 "Radical in America," a special issue edited by Robert Barsky that aims to recall, assess and promulgate ideas of radicalism throughout all regions of the Americas. This issue will also consider the idea of "America" as an absolute but unachievable objective, and therefore we welcome works on utopias, ideals and dreams for worlds imagined in time, space and imagination. Submissions are welcome in whatever format or genre suited to the issues presented. Deadline for submissions, October 1, 2008.  Volume 5, Number 2. In War Inc. Seymour Melman sought to introduce a new generation of readers to his lifelong critique of the operation of the war economy in the United States, and the ongoing process of deindustrialization that has destroyed much of America’s once formidable manufacturing industries. Aimed at a wide variety of readers, the book draws on and synthesizes Professor Melman’s prior research and books, especially Pentagon Capitalism, The Permanent War Economy, and Our Depleted Society. It also extends some of the arguments and research of his major 2001 study, After Capitalism: From Mangerialism to Workplace Democracy.  Volume 5, Number 1. This special issue is devoted to comparative literary studies, and features examples of such work in the Americas setting, as well as a special commentary section which includes contributions from some of its leading practitioners. Readers are invited to comment on articles, or offer up their own sense of comparative literary work; a discussion section will be mounted to create dialogism within and beyond this issue.  Volume 4, Number 1. This open issue includes work by Arnold Reisman, who notes in his article that Felix Haurowitz, the great biochemist, survived extermination because, starting in 1933, Turkey offered refuge for many intellectuals who were fleeing the Nazis. America was out of reach for the likes of Haurowitz because of restrictive immigration laws and widespread anti-Semitic hiring and gender bias at its universities.  Volume 3, Number 2, "Quests Beyond the Ivory Tower: Public Intellectuals, Academia and the Media" Edited by Saleem Ali and Robert Barsky, this special issue of AmeriQuests is comprised of papers and commentaries which were first presented to the MIT Communications Forum entitled “Public Intellectuals and the Academy.” The authors have aggrandized and edited their respective contributions with an eye to creating a collection that approaches this complex subject from a range of perspectives, East and West.  The image for Volume 3, Number 1, the special issue on "Quebec and Canada in the Americas," is the cover of the Refus globale manifesto: "In 1948, Paul-Emile Borduas, then a little-known painter on the international scene, living in the Province of Quebec, Canada, together with sixteen friends and students, proclaimed publicly a new era in terms of art and social attitudes by publishing a manifesto that they called Refus global." [excerpt from "Borduas -- Then and Now"]  This photo "Let my mami drive legally" for the Volume 2, Number 1, From the Culture of Borders to Border Cultures issue was taken by Chalene Helmuth in Nashville, TN during the immigration demonstrations of April 2006. The Commentary section of this issue contains her description of a recent conference on "The New Latino Immigration".  The cover image for Volume 1, Number 1, 'The Paycheck,' is excerpted from "The Migrant Project: Contemporary California Farm Workers," a photographic and text exhibit created by Rick Nahmias. Recorded in over forty towns across California, the exhibit profiles the stories and lives of the people who supply over half the nation's produce. For more information on the artist, image, or exhibit visit rcnphoto.com. © Rick Nahmias. All Rights Reserved.New Monograph
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