SFB 1288

The "forum for inter-american research" (fiar), an electronic journal established by the American Studies Programme at Bielefeld University in 2008, is the e-journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). The current issue Doing and Undoing Comparisons: Practices of Comparing in the Americas" includes contributions by the members of subproject B02 of the SFB 1288: Pablo Campos, Olaf Kaltmeier, Wilfried Raussert, and Susana Rocha Teixeira, and also by Marcus Hartner of the subproject B05.

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The issue's contributions:

• Susana Rocha Teixeira, Bielefeld University: Doing and Undoing Comparisons: An Introduction
• Wilfried Raussert, Bielefeld University: 'We Wear the Mask': Modern 'Masks', Reflexivity, and Black Practices of Comparing in the Harlem Renaissance
• Gudrun Rath, University of Art and Design, Linz: Contesting Inequality. Joseph Anténor Firmin's De l'égalité des races humaines, 133 years on
• Olaf Kaltmeier, Bielefeld University: Invidious Comparison and the New Global Leisure Class: On the Refeudalization of Consumption in the Old and New Gilded Age
• Claudia Hachenberger, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg: Narcos and the Promotion of an U.S. (Informal) Cultural Empire Based on Processes of Stereotyping and Comparison
• Carsten Schinko, University of Stuttgart/HU Berlin: How (Not) to Compare White Poverty: Class Issues, Socioeconomic Suffering, Literature
• Marcus Hartner, Bielefeld University: Placing Prospero's Island: (Post)Colonial Practices of Comparing in the Academic Reception of Shakespeare's The Tempest
• Yago Quiñones Triana, Universidade de Brasília: Gilberto Freyre entre duas Américas Latinas: a lusitana e a hispana. Análise da transformação da interpretação do Autor com relação a influência espanhola e portuguesa em América.
• Elena Furlanetto, University of Duisburg-Essen: Declensions: Conceptual Migrations across Empires
• Pablo Campos, Bielefeld University: 'Early' and 'Modern' indigenist Practices—A Comparative Analysis of the Ecuadorian and the Mexican cases
• Kensedeobong Blessed Okosun, Bielefeld University: Book Review: Weird American Music