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

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Reading "America" Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse / Jane C. DesmondIntroduction: The "American" Conundrum—Criticism, Attraction, and Antagonisms / Virginia R. Domínguez, with Sophia BalakianPART I. WHOSE "AMERICA"? WHOSE "ANTI-AMERICANISM"?1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West-) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement / Sabine Broeck2. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism: An Italian Perspective / Giorgio MarianiSecond Look—Sabine Broeck on Giorgio MarianiSecond Look—Giorgio Mariani on Sabine BroeckThird Look—Sophia Balakian on Mariani and Broeck—"Sticks and Stones: Discourses of Anti-Americanism as Name-CallingPART II. HISTORIES OF ENGAGEMENTS: TWO CASE STUDIES LOOKING AT DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION AND THEIR CONTEXTS3. Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Poland: A Case Study, 1945–2006 / Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia: A Historical Snapshot from 2005 / Loes NasSecond Look—Loes Nas on Kate Delaney and Andrzej AntoszekSecond Look—Sophia Balakian on Loes NasThird 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'"PART III. DEBATING THE TERMS OF DEBATE5. Kefaya and the New Politics of Anti-Americanism / Manar Shorbagy6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia / Edward SchatzSecond Look—Manar Shorbagy on Edward SchatzSecond Look—Edward Schatz on Manar ShorbagyThird Look—Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Schatz and Shorbagy—"What Is Anti-Americanism?"Third Look—Ira Dworkin on Schatz and Shorbagy—"Thinking Outside of America: The State, the Street, and Civil Society"PART IV. VISUAL ENGAGEMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS7. Lost and Found in Translation: Problems of Cultural Translation in Hungary after 1989 / Zsófia Bán8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood: The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace / Richard EllisSecond Look—Richard Ellis on Zsófia BánSecond Look—Zsófia Bán on Richard EllisThird Look—Ana Mauad on Bán and Ellis—An Imagined Community for the Twenty-First Century?PART V. DISRUPTING BINARIES: WHOSE "COUNTRY MUSIC" AND WHOSE "HIP-HOP"?9. Tales of the West: "Americanization" in an Era of "Europeanization" / Kristin Solli10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power: Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture / Ian CondrySecond Look—Ian Condry on Kristin SolliSecond Look—Kristin Solli on Ian CondryThird Look—Michael Titlestad on Solli and Condry—"Dreaming America"PART VI. IS IT "AMERICANIZATION" OR "PRO-AMERICANISM"? THE AMERICAS, PAN-AMERICANISM, AND IMMIGRATION11. "Making Pals in Panama": U.S.–Latin American Relations and the Trope of the Good Neighbor in Coca-Cola Advertising during the 1940s / Amy Spellacy12. Americanism and Anti-Americanism of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles / Guillermo IbarraSecond Look—Guillermo Ibarra on Amy SpellacySecond Look—Amy Spellacy on Guillermo IbarraThird Look—Virginia R. Domínguez on Spellacy and Ibarra—"Not Just for Latin Americanists"ContributorsIndex