Unfamiliar America - Essays in American Studies

This book scrutinizes a variety of contested topics in American history, from xenophobic attitudes toward eighteenth-century university professors to Apache masculinity, racial sciences of the early twentieth century, Tom Waits's lyrics, and the Trump era.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Facing and Adapting to an Unfamiliar America 1. "Hoist That Rag": Tom Waits, the Uncanny, and the Old, Weird America 2. "Damn the European Professors": Higher Education and Xenophobia in Jefferson’s Virginia 3. "Brave Men to Brave Men": Experiencing Honor and Masculinities on a Settler Colonial Borderland 4. Aleš Hrdlička and the Boundaries of Whiteness Part 2: Conservatives and Liberals in the Unfamiliar Trumpian America 5. Defending the Unreached and Unknown: American Evangelical Advocacy for International Religious Freedom 6. Elite Unfamiliarity and Popular Recognition: Texas Tea Party Republicans’ Embrace of Donald Trump in 2016 7. Trump and the Christian Right: The Political Theology Behind the Mutual Attraction 8. Voting Against the Unfamiliar: The Rural/Urban Divide in U.S. Elections 9. It Can't Happen Here: The Struggle Against Tyranny and the Trouble with Liberalism Part 3: African American History and the Present 10. History Matters 11. Race in the Cultural Politics of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan 12. Emmett Till, History and Memory 13. The Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Activists in Xenophobic Times

About the author

Ari Helo is a Senior University Lecturer in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki.
Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Summary

This book scrutinizes a variety of contested topics in American history, from xenophobic attitudes toward eighteenth-century university professors to Apache masculinity, racial sciences of the early twentieth century, Tom Waits's lyrics, and the Trump era.

Product details

• Authors: Ari (University of Helsinki Helo
• Assisted by: Ari Helo (Editor), Helo Ari (Editor), Mikko Saikku (Editor), Saikku Mikko (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2020
• EAN: 9780367551414
• ISBN: 978-0-367-55141-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Advances in American History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, History: theory and methods