Global Perspectives on the United States

Virginia R. Dominguez is the Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of several books including People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel. Jane C. Desmond is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Displaying Death/ Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life and several other books.

"A fascinating, timely, and provocative intervention into current debates and discussions within the field of American Studies."--Nick Selby, editor of Comparative American Studies "Lively and the format adds to the excitement and informative dialogue. The scholarship builds a depth and richness into the discussion and contributes to our understanding of a challenging set of questions."--Ida Susser, author of Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood "An interesting, uniquely structured work . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Global Perspectives on the United States offers rich, interesting, innovative, and thought-provoking reflections on the process of assimilation, adaptation, and transformation of American values and cultural expressions, within different contexts. The book . . . shows the utility and complexity of constructivist approaches in international and social studies."--H-Net

• Acknowledgments ix Prologue: Reading "America" Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse xi Jane C. Desmond Introduction: The "American" Conundrum-Criticism, Attraction, and Antagonisms 1 Virginia R. Dominguez, with Sophia Balakian PART I. WHOSE "AMERICA"? WHOSE "ANTI-AMERICANISM"? 1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement 31 Sabine Broeck 2. What We Talk About When We Talk About Anti-Americanism: An Italian Perspective 46 Giorgio Mariani Second Look-Sabine Broeck on Giorgio Mariani 61 Second Look-Giorgio Mariani on Sabine Broeck 64 Third Look-Sophia Balakian on Mariani and Broeck- "Sticks and Stones: Discourses of Anti-Americanism as Name-Calling" 68 PART II. HISTORIES OF ENGAGEMENTS: TWO CASE STUDIES LOOKING AT DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION AND THEIR CONTEXTS 3. Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Poland: A Case Study, 1945-2006 73 Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek 4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia: A Historical Snapshot from 2005 92 Loes Nas Second Look-Loes Nas on Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek 103 Second Look-Sophia Balakian on Loes Nas 105 Third Look-Jane C. Desmond on Delaney & Antoszek and Nas-"Reversing the Vectors of Analysis: Calibrating the 'Use Value' of Discourses of 'Americanism,' 'Americanization,' and 'Anti-Americanism'" 109 PART III. DEBATING THE TERMS OF DEBATE 5. Kefaya and the New Politics of Anti-Americanism 115 Manar Shorbagy 6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia 131 Edward Schatz Second Look-Manar Shorbagy on Edward Schatz 152 Second Look-Edward Schatz on Manar Shorbagy 155 Third Look-Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Schatz and Shorbagy-"What Is Anti-Americanism?" 157 Third Look-Ira Dworkin on Schatz and Shorbagy- "Thinking Outside of America: The State, the Street, and Civil Society" 161 PART IV. VISUAL ENGAGEMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS 7. Lost and Found in Translation: Problems of Cultural Translation in Hungary after 1989 169 Zsofia Ban 8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood: The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace 178 Richard Ellis Second Look-Richard Ellis on Zsofia Ban 201 Second Look-Zsofia Ban on Richard Ellis 205 Third Look-Ana Mauad on Ban and Ellis- An Imagined Community for the Twenty-First Century? 208 PART V. DISRUPTING BINARIES: WHOSE "COUNTRY MUSIC" AND WHOSE "HIP-HOP"? 9. Tales of the West: "Americanization" in an Era of "Europeanization" 217 Kristin Solli 10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power: Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture 239 Ian Condry Second Look-Ian Condry on Kristin Solli 251 Second Look-Kristin Solli on Ian Condry 254 Third Look-Michael Titlestad on Solli and Condry- "Dreaming America" 258 PART VI. IS IT "AMERICANIZATION" OR "PRO-AMERICANISM"? THE AMERICAS, PAN-AMERICANISM, AND IMMIGRATION 11. "Making Pals in Panama": U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Trope of the Good Neighbor in Coca-Cola Advertising during the 1940s 265 Amy Spellacy 12. Americanism and Anti-Americanism of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles 290 Guillermo Ibarra Second Look-Guillermo Ibarra on Amy Spellacy 298 Second Look-Amy Spellacy on Guillermo Ibarra 304 Third Look-Virginia R. Dominguez on Spellacy and Ibarra-"Not Just for Latin Americanists" 308 Contributors 313 Index 319