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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext American Studies is an unprecedented anthology that charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day, showcasing dozens of essays that represent the best in American scholarship. 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. The volume also includes writings from earlier eras to show how changing perspectives have enabled older concepts and debates to emerge in different contexts, casting new light on their significance and impact. Zusammenfassung American Studies is a groundbreaking anthology that charts the evolution of American Studies from the end of World War II to the present day! showcasing dozens of essays that represent the best in cutting edge Americanist scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on the Editors x Acknowledgments to Sources xi Introduction 1 Part I Empire, Nation, Diaspora 7 Introduction 7 1 Rethinking Race and Nation 9 Nikhil Pal Singh 2 Manifest Domesticity 17 Amy Kaplan 3 Nuestra América's Borders: Remapping American Cultural Studies 26 José David Saldívar 4 The Practice of Diaspora 33 Brent Hayes Edwards 5 Removal 41 Tiya Miles 6 Redefining Security: Okinawa Women's Resistance to US Militarism 49 Yoko Fukumura and Martha Matsuoka Part II States, Citizenship, Rights 57 Introduction 57 7 Liberty's Empire 59 Laura Doyle 8 The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law 69 Mae M. Ngai 9 The Citizen and the Terrorist 78 Leti Volpp 10 Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property 89 Peggy Pascoe 11 Racing Religion 99 Moustafa Bayoumi 12 The Intimate Public Sphere 109 Lauren Berlant 13 Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency 119 Christopher Newfield Part III Reproduction of Work 133 Introduction 133 14 Domestic Life in the Diggings 135 Susan Lee Johnson 15 "Women's Sweat": Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 145 Jennifer L. Morgan 16 Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the "Rational Girl Striker" 155 Nan Enstad 17 The Age of the CIO 166 Michael Denning 18 Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics 177 Lisa Lowe 19 Global Cities and Survival Circuits 185 Saskia Sassen Part IV Religion, Spirituality, and Alternate Ways of Being in the United States 195 Introduction 195 20 Snakes Alive: Religious Studies between Heaven and Earth 199 Robert A. Orsi 21 From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment 213 Leigh Eric Schmidt 22 Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s 225 Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 23 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism 233 Elizabeth McAlister 24 The Go...
