List of Contributors x
Acknowledgments xvi
Introduction 1
John Carlos Rowe
Part I Foundations and Backgrounds 17
1. Puritan Origins 19
Philip F. Gura
2. Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies,
1851–1942 36
Michael A. Elliott
3. The Laboring of American Culture 59
Michael Denning
4. Is Class an American Study? 74
Paul Lauter
5. Religious Studies 92
Jay Mechling
6. American Languages 124
Joshua L. Miller
Part II Ethnic Studies and American Studies 151
7. Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential
Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies 153
George Lipsitz
8. Native American Studies 172
John Gamber
9. The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies 190
Richard T. Rodríguez
10. African American Studies 210
Jared Sexton
11. Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique 229
Lisa Lowe
Part III The New American Studies 245
12. Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance 247
Harilaos Stecopoulos
13. Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American
Studies in the Postmodern Condition 263
Donald Pease
14. Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization 284
John Carlos Rowe
15. Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Foreigner” and
the Spanish-American War 303
Rebecca Walsh
16. The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies
320
David E. Nye
17. The World Wide Web and Digital Culture: New Borders, New Media,
New American Studies 334
Matthias Oppermann
Part IV Problems and Issues 351
18. Regionalism 353
Kevin R. McNamara
19. The West and Manifest Destiny 369
Deborah L. Madsen
20. Canadian Studies and American Studies 387
Alyssa MacLean
21. The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom
407
Henry A. Giroux
22. Popular, Mass, and High Culture 432
Shelley Streeby
Index 453
John Carlos Rowe is USC Associates? Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He has written and edited many books, including The Vietnam War and American Culture (1991), Post-Nationalist American Studies (2000), Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II (2000), and The New American Studies (2002).
"There is no more masterful guide to the field of American Studies than John Carlos Rowe. In this volume, he brings together some of the most articulate scholars in the field to map out the key issues defining American studies scholarship at its most exciting and relevant. This book is an impressive introduction to the key issues of the field today." Marita Sturken, New York University "The stunning and compelling essays collected in this comprehensive volume by John Rowe provide an essential guide to the transformation of the field of American Studies for the 21st century." George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California
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