American Studies An Anthology

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

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ISBN: 9781405113526 | 1405113529
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 2/24/2009

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Reconfiguring American Studies is a 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.

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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