American Studies An Anthology

by Radway, Janice A.; Gaines, Kevin; Shank, Barry; Von Eschen, Penny

• ISBN13: 9781405113519
• ISBN10: 1405113510
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-09
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

American Studies is a vigorous, bold account of the changes in the field of American Studies over the last thirty-five years. Through this set of carefully selected key essays by an editorial board of expert scholars, the book demonstrates how changes in the field have produced new genealogies that tell different histories of both America and the study of America. Charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field An introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context Explores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life Shows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context

Author Biography

Janice A. Radway is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at Duke University

Kevin Gaines is Professor of History and Director of the Center for African American and African Studies at the University of Michigan

Barry Shank is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University

Penny M. Von Eschen is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Michigan

Table of Contents

Empire, Nation, Diaspora

Rethinking Race and Nation from Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy

Manifest Domesticity

Nuestra America´s Borders

Prologue to The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism

Removal: Tiya Miles

Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to US Militarism

States, Citizenship, Rights

Introduction: Laura Doyle

The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law

The Citizen and the Terrorist

Race, Gender, Privileges of Property

Racing Religion

The Intimate Public Sphere

Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency

Reproduction of Work

Domestic Life in the Diggings

Women's Sweat: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World

Fashioning Political Subjectivities: 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the Rational Girl Striker

The Age of the CIO

Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics

Global Cities and Circuits

Religion, Spirituality, and Alternate Ways of Being in the U. S

Snakes Alive: Religious Studies Between Heaven and Earth

From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment

Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 30s

The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism

The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam

Getting Religion

Performances and Practices

The Origins of Mass Culture

Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II

Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans

To Be Young, Brown and Hip: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Indian American Youth Culture

Teatro Viva! Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles

Waiting for Godzilla: Towards a Globalist Theme Park

HollywoodÆs Hot Voodoo

Body Talk

Turning People into Products

Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice

Between æOriental DepravityÆ and æNatural DegeneratesÆ: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans

The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA

The PatientÆs Body

Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants

Mediating Technologies

Two Spinning Wheels in an Old Log House

The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium

Likeness as Identity: Reflections on the Daguerrean Mystique

I Want to Ride in GeronimoÆs Cadillac

Reading the Book of Life: DNA and the Meanings of Identity

44.Television and the Politics of Difference

Sites, Space, and Land

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Knowing Nature Through Labor

Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California

Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces

The Prison Fix

The Globalization of Latin America: Miami

Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans: Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues

Memory and Re-Memory

Not only the Footprints, but the Water, Too

The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost

The Wall and the Screen Memory

The Patriot Acts

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

Internationalization and Knowledge Production about American Studies

Spectres of comparison: American Studies and the United States of the West

Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish

Outside Where? Comparing Notes on Comparative American Studies and American Comparative Studies

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