The Editors of the Journal of Transnational American Studies, a peer- reviewed online, open-access journal published by the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center at the University of California- Santa Barbara and the Program in American Studies at Stanford University, are delighted to announce the publication of the journal's newest issue. JTAS 2.1 features a previously unpublished essay by W. E. B. Du Bois and an article by Mark Twain that has not been reprinted since its initial publication in 1868, as well as contributions from scholars based in Argentina, Canada, Japan, Korea, Spain, and the United States. In addition to new articles that examine questions in American Studies as the field intersects productively and problematically with other national cultures, societies, politics, and histories, the journal contains excerpts from newly published books in transnational American studies (in the Forward section), and select re-publication of significant contributions to the field (in the Reprise section). The table of contents of JTAS 2.1 is pasted below. The journal may be accessed without charge at http://escholarship.org/uc/acgcc_jtas . Please consult the Call for Papers section of the web site for details on the journal's standing CFP as well as CFPs for open special forums and instructions for submitting to the Forward and Reprise sections of the journal. JTAS 2.1 CONTENTS April 2010 Introduction Yanoula Athanassakis; Eric L. Martinsen FORWARD Forward Editor’s Note Greg Robinson Special Editor’s Note Shirley Geok-Lin Lim Excerpt from A Fighting Diva Konomi Ara Excerpt from Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class Belinda Edmondson Excerpt from A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America Greg Robinson ARTICLES “The Afro-American” W. E. B. Du Bois “Of Horizon: An Introduction to ‘The Afro-American’ by W. E. B. Du Bois —circa 1894” Nahum D. Chandler “Housing the ‘Other’ Half: American Studies’ Global Urban Turn” David Faflik “From the End of History to Nostalgia: The Manchurian Candidate, Then and Now” Junghyun Hwang “Disorienting the Furniture: The Transgressive Journalism of Alfonsina Storni and Charlotte Perkins Gilman” Mariela E. Méndez “The Making of a Hemispheric Intellectual and Statesman: Leo S. Rowe in Argentina (1906–1919)” Ricardo D. Salvatore “The Junkyard in the Jungle: Transnational, Transnatural Nature in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest” Begoña Simal “The Object of Study; or, Are We Being Transnational Yet?” Bryce Traister “Dancing in the Diaspora: Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco’s Chinese Folk Dance Association” Sau-ling C. Wong REPRISE Reprise Editor’s Note Nina Morgan “The Treaty with China” (1868) Mark Twain “Mark Twain, ‘The Treaty with China,’ and the Chinese Connection” Martin Zehr “Terror, Aesthetics, and the Humanities in the Public Sphere” Emory Elliott “The Many Sides of Happy Lim: aka Hom Ah Wing, Lin Jian Fu, Happy Lum, Lin Chien Fu, Hom Yen Chuck, Lam Kim Foo, Lum Kin Foo, Hom, Lim Goon Wing, Lim Gin Foo, Gin Foo Lin, Koon Wing Lim, Henry Chin, Lim Ying Chuck, Lim Ah Wing, et. al” Gordon Chang