Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Futures 1
5. Posthegemonic
6. What’s in a Name? 45
7. The International within the National 76
8. The Future in the Present 93
9. Manifest Domesticity 111
10. C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies 135
11. Comparativist
12. Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies 167
13. Salesman in Moscow 183
14. The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism 211
15. Autobiographies of the Ex-White Men: Why Race Is Not a Social Construction 231
16. Color Blindness and Acting Out 248
17. Differential
18. Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity 269
19. Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s ‘‘The Hammer Man’’ 305
20. Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of ‘‘Our’’ New America(s) 327
21. Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel 341
22. Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children 371
23. American Studies in the ‘‘Age of the World Picture’’: Thinking the Question of Language 387
24. Counterhegemonic
25. Work and Culture in American Studies 419
26. ‘‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements 441
27. Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border Discourses, and Public Culture(s) 461
28. American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class 486
29. The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies 510
30. Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen 536
31. Afterword
32. ConsterNation 559
33. Bibliography 581
34. Contributors 609
35. Index 613