Acknowledgments– viii
Futures** – Donald E. Pease & Robyn Wiegman – p. 1
Posthegemonic
What’s in a Name? – Jan Radway – p. 45
The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique – Lisa Lowe – p. 76
The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant‑Gardes and the Performance of Utopia – José Esteban Muñoz – p. 93
Manifest Domesticity – Amy Kaplan – p. 111
C. L. R. James, Moby‑Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies – Donald E. Pease – p. 135
Comparativist
Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies– John Carlos Rowe – p. 167
Salesman in Moscow– Dana Heller – p. 183
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism – Winfried Fluck – p. 211
Autobiographies of Ex‑White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction – Walter Benn Michaels – p. 231
Color Blindness and Acting Out– Carl Gutierrez‑Jones – p. 248
Differential
Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity – Robyn Wiegman – p. 269
Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” – Lindon Barrett – p. 305
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) – Ricardo L. Ortiz – p. 327
Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel – Nancy Bentley – p. 341
Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children – Gillian Brown – p. 371
American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language* – William V. Spanos – p. 387
Counterhegemonic
Work and Culture in American Studies – Michael Denning – p. 419
“Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements – George Lipsitz – p. 441
Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s) – Gunter H. Lenz – p. 461
American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class – Paul Lauter – p. 486
The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies – Eric Cheyfitz – p. 510
Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen – Russ Castronovo – p. 536
Afterword
ConsterNation – Dana D. Nelson – p. 559
Bibliography – p. 581
Contributors – p. 609
Index – p. 613
Futures** – Donald E. Pease & Robyn Wiegman – p. 1
Posthegemonic
What’s in a Name? – Jan Radway – p. 45
The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique – Lisa Lowe – p. 76
The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant‑Gardes and the Performance of Utopia – José Esteban Muñoz – p. 93
Manifest Domesticity – Amy Kaplan – p. 111
C. L. R. James, Moby‑Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies – Donald E. Pease – p. 135
Comparativist
Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies– John Carlos Rowe – p. 167
Salesman in Moscow– Dana Heller – p. 183
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism – Winfried Fluck – p. 211
Autobiographies of Ex‑White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction – Walter Benn Michaels – p. 231
Color Blindness and Acting Out– Carl Gutierrez‑Jones – p. 248
Differential
Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity – Robyn Wiegman – p. 269
Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” – Lindon Barrett – p. 305
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) – Ricardo L. Ortiz – p. 327
Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel – Nancy Bentley – p. 341
Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children – Gillian Brown – p. 371
American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language* – William V. Spanos – p. 387
Counterhegemonic
Work and Culture in American Studies – Michael Denning – p. 419
“Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements – George Lipsitz – p. 441
Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s) – Gunter H. Lenz – p. 461
American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class – Paul Lauter – p. 486
The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies – Eric Cheyfitz – p. 510
Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen – Russ Castronovo – p. 536
Afterword
ConsterNation – Dana D. Nelson – p. 559
Bibliography – p. 581
Contributors – p. 609
Index – p. 613