{"product_id":"american-studies-9781405113526","title":"American Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eCharts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day by showcasing the best scholarship in this field\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAn introductory essay by the distinguished editorial board highlights developments in the field and places each essay in its historical and theoretical context\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores topics such as American politics, history, culture, race, gender and working life\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eShows how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts to emerge in a different context\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on the Editors x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments to Sources xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Empire, Nation, Diaspora 7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Rethinking Race and Nation 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNikhil Pal Singh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Manifest Domesticity 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Nuestra América’s Borders: Remapping American Cultural Studies 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJosé David Saldívar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Practice of Diaspora 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrent Hayes Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Removal 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTiya Miles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Redefining Security: Okinawa Women’s Resistance to US Militarism 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II States, Citizenship, Rights 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Liberty’s Empire 59\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Doyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMae M. Ngai\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Citizen and the Terrorist 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeti Volpp\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeggy Pascoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Racing Religion 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoustafa Bayoumi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Intimate Public Sphere 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLauren Berlant\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Newfield\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Reproduction of Work 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Domestic Life in the Diggings 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSusan Lee Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 “Women’s Sweat”: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 145\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer L. Morgan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the “Rational Girl Striker” 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNan Enstad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 The Age of the CIO 166\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Denning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa Lowe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Global Cities and Survival Circuits 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaskia Sassen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Religion, Spirituality, and Alternate Ways of Being in the United States 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Snakes Alive: Religious Studies between Heaven and Earth 199\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A. Orsi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment 213\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeigh Eric Schmidt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvelyn Brooks Higginbotham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth McAlister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam, 1972–80 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMelani McAlister\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Getting Religion 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Performances and Practices 269\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 269\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Origins of Mass Culture 271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard M. Ohmann\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobin D. G. Kelley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Lipsitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 To Be Young, Brown, and Hip: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Indian American Youth Culture 299\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunaina Marr Maira\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Teatro Viva! Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles 307\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Román\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a Globalist Theme Park 315\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTakayuki Tatsumi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Hollywood’s Hot Voodoo 319\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEva Cherniavsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Body-Talk 327\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 327\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Turning People into Products 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Johnson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaidiya V. Hartman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Between “Oriental Depravity” and “Natural Degenerates”: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans 346\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNayan Shah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA [United States of Ability] 357\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLennard J. Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 The Patient’s Body 365\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia L. Blum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality, and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMimi Nguyen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII Mediating Technologies 385\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 385\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Two Spinning Wheels in an Old Log House 387\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurel Thatcher Ulrich\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium 397\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Warner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Likeness as Identity: Reflections on the Daguerrean Mystique 405\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Trachtenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 “I Want to Ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac” 413\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Deloria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Reading the “Book of Life”: DNA and the Meanings of Identity 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah E. Chinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Television and the Politics of Difference 433\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHerman S. Gray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII Sites, Space, and Land 443\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 443\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Where is Guantánamo? 445\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmy Kaplan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Knowing Nature through Labor: Energy, Salmon Society on the Columbia 458\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard White\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California 465\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaura Pulido\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces 476\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLizabeth Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 The Prison Fix 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRuth Wilson Gilmore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami 493\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Yúdice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues 506\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClyde Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IX Memory and Re-Memory 515\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 515\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Not only the Footprints but the Water Too and What is Down There 517\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvery Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost 528\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Blight\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial 540\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarita Sturken\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 The Patriot Acts 550\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonald E. Pease\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History 558\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichel-Rolph Trouillot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X Internationalization and Knowledge Production about American Studies 567\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 567\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e57 Spectres of Comparison: American Studies and the United States of the West 569\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiam Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish 578\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobyn Wiegman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e59 Outside Where? Comparing Notes on Comparative American Studies and American Comparative Studies 588\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonatella Izzo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 605\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407848120663,"sku":"9781405113526","price":36.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405113526.jpg?v=1730500729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-studies-9781405113526","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}