An Unfamiliar America: Essays in American Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367551421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str.

Helo, Ari

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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