An Unfamiliar America

Essays in American Studies
Herausgeber: Helo, Ari; Saikku, Mikko

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780367551414
• ISBN-10: 0367551411
• Artikelnr.: 60002443

Autorenporträt

Ari Helo is a Senior University Lecturer in North American Studies at the University of Helsinki. Mikko Saikku is the McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies at the University of Helsinki.

Inhaltsangabe

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. Ale Hrdli¿ka 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