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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A superb collection of essays that presents a unique model for a Post-American cultural studies. As a whole, the volume argues persuasively for the centrality of culture in the study of imperialist politics and the defining significance of imperialism in U.S. cultural formations."—Steven Mailloux, University of California, Irvine
"This collection is well positioned to intervene in the most important scholarly debates of our time."—George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego
Table of ContentsIntroduction
"Left Alone with America": The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture / Amy Kaplan 3
New Perspectives on U.S. Culture and Imperialism / Donald E. Pease 22
1. Nation-Building as Empire-Building
Why Did the Europeans Cross the Ocean? A Seventeenth-Century Riddle / Myra Jehlen 41
Terms of Assimilation: Legislating Subjectivity in the Emerging Nation / Priscilla Wald 59
The Naming of Yale College: British Imperialism and American Higher Education / Gauri Viswanathan 85
Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in
Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and
The Pioneers / Eric Cheyfitz 109
Science Fiction, the World's Fair, and the Prosthetics of Empire, 1910-1915 / Bill Brown 129
Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" and the Mythologization of the American Empire / Richard Slotkin 164
II. Borderline Negotiations of Race, Gender, and Nation
White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines / Vicente L. Rafael 185
Black and Blue on San Juan Hill / Amy Kaplan 219
Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 / Donna Haraway 237
Americo Paredes and Decolonization / Jose David Saldivar 292
Pious Sites: Chamorro Culture Between Spanish Catholicism and American Liberal Individualism / Vicente M. Diaz 312
Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and
Insurgent Mexico / Christopher P. Wilson 340
III. Colonizing Resistance or Resisting Colonization?
Anti-Imperial Americanism / Walter Benn Michaels 365
Appeals for (Mis)recognition: Theorizing the Diaspora / Kenneth W. Warren 392
Resisting the Heat: Menchu, Morrison, and Incompetent Readers / Doris Sommer 407
Black Americans' Racial Uplift Ideology as "Civilizing Mission": Pauline E. Hopkins on Race and Imperialism / Kevin Gaines 433
From Liberalism to Communism: The Political Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois / William E. Cain 456
White Like Me: Racial Cross-Dressing and the Construction of American Whiteness / Eric Lott 474
IV. Imperial Spectacles
"Make My Day!": Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics [and] The Sequel / Michael Rogin 499
The Patriot System, or Managerial Heroism / Susan Jeffords 535
Hiroshima, the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, and the Gulf War Post-National Spectacles / Donald E. Pease 557
Techno-Muscularity and the "Boy Eternal": From the Quagmire to the Gulf / Lynda Boose 581
"Bwana Mickey": Constructing Cultural Consumption at Tokyo Disneyland / Mary Yoko Brannen 617
We Think, Therefore They Are? On Occidentalizing the World / Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington 635
Index 657
Contributors 669
