American Studies

JANICE A. RADWAY is Walter Dill Scott Professor of Communication and Professor of American Studies and Gender Studies at Northwestern University. KEVIN GAINES is Professor of History and Director of the Center for African American and African Studies at the University of Michigan. BARRY SHANK is Professor of Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. PENNY M. VON ESCHEN is Professor of History and American Culture at the University of Michigan.

• Notes on the Editors xAcknowledgments to Sources xiIntroduction 1Part I Empire, Nation, Diaspora 7Introduction 71 Rethinking Race and Nation 9Nikhil Pal Singh2 Manifest Domesticity 17Amy Kaplan3 Nuestra América’s Borders: Remapping American Cultural Studies 26José David Saldívar4 The Practice of Diaspora 33Brent Hayes Edwards5 Removal 41Tiya Miles6 Redefining Security: Okinawa Women’s Resistance to US Militarism 49Yoko Fukumura and Martha MatsuokaPart II States, Citizenship, Rights 57Introduction 577 Liberty’s Empire 59Laura Doyle8 The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration Law 69Mae M. Ngai9 The Citizen and the Terrorist 78Leti Volpp10 Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property 89Peggy Pascoe11 Racing Religion 99Moustafa Bayoumi12 The Intimate Public Sphere 109Lauren Berlant13 Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency 119Christopher NewfieldPart III Reproduction of Work 133Introduction 13314 Domestic Life in the Diggings 135Susan Lee Johnson15 “Women’s Sweat”: Gender and Agricultural Labor in the Atlantic World 145Jennifer L. Morgan16 Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the “Rational Girl Striker” 155Nan Enstad17 The Age of the CIO 166Michael Denning18 Work, Immigration, Gender: New Subjects of Cultural Politics 177Lisa Lowe19 Global Cities and Survival Circuits 185Saskia SassenPart IV Religion, Spirituality, and Alternate Ways of Being in the United States 195Introduction 19520 Snakes Alive: Religious Studies between Heaven and Earth 199Robert A. Orsi21 From Demon Possession to Magic Show: Ventriloquism, Religion, and the Enlightenment 213Leigh Eric Schmidt22 Rethinking Vernacular Culture: Black Religion and Race Records in the 1920s and 1930s 225Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham23 The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism 233Elizabeth McAlister24 The Good Fight: Israel after Vietnam, 1972–80 246Melani McAlister25 Getting Religion 260Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann PellegriniPart V Performances and Practices 269Introduction 26926 The Origins of Mass Culture 271Richard M. Ohmann27 The Riddle of the Zoot: Malcolm Little and Black Cultural Politics during World War II 280Robin D. G. Kelley28 Mardi Gras Indians: Carnival and Counter-Narrative in Black New Orleans 290George Lipsitz29 To Be Young, Brown, and Hip: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Indian American Youth Culture 299Sunaina Marr Maira30 Teatro Viva! Latino Performance and the Politics of AIDS in Los Angeles 307David Román31 Waiting for Godzilla: Toward a Globalist Theme Park 315Takayuki Tatsumi32 Hollywood’s Hot Voodoo 319Eva CherniavskyPart VI Body-Talk 327Introduction 32733 Turning People into Products 329Walter Johnson34 Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice 338Saidiya V. Hartman35 Between “Oriental Depravity” and “Natural Degenerates”: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans 346Nayan Shah36 The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA [United States of Ability] 357Lennard J. Davis37 The Patient’s Body 365Virginia L. Blum38 Queer Cyborgs and New Mutants: Race, Sexuality, and Prosthetic Sociality in Digital Space 372Mimi NguyenPart VII Mediating Technologies 385Introduction 38539 Two Spinning Wheels in an Old Log House 387Laurel Thatcher Ulrich40 The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium 397Michael Warner41 Likeness as Identity: Reflections on the Daguerrean Mystique 405Alan Trachtenberg42 “I Want to Ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac” 413Philip Deloria43 Reading the “Book of Life”: DNA and the Meanings of Identity 424Sarah E. Chinn44 Television and the Politics of Difference 433Herman S. GrayPart VIII Sites, Space, and Land 443Introduction 44345 Where is Guantánamo? 445Amy Kaplan46 Knowing Nature through Labor: Energy, Salmon Society on the Columbia 458Richard White47 Rethinking Environmental Racism: White Privilege and Urban Development in Southern California 465Laura Pulido48 Commerce: Reconfiguring Community Marketplaces 476Lizabeth Cohen49 The Prison Fix 486Ruth Wilson Gilmore50 The Globalization of Latin America: Miami 493George Yúdice51 Do You Know What it Means to Miss New Orleans? Katrina, Trap Economics, and the Rebirth of the Blues 506Clyde WoodsPart IX Memory and Re-Memory 515Introduction 51552 Not only the Footprints but the Water Too and What is Down There 517Avery Gordon53 The Lost Cause and Causes Not Lost 528David Blight54 The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial 540Marita Sturken55 The Patriot Acts 550Donald E. Pease56 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History 558Michel-Rolph TrouillotPart X Internationalization and Knowledge Production about American Studies 567Introduction 56757 Spectres of Comparison: American Studies and the United States of the West 569Liam Kennedy58 Romancing the Future: Internationalization as Symptom and Wish 578Robyn Wiegman59 Outside Where? Comparing Notes on Comparative American Studies and American Comparative Studies 588Donatella IzzoIndex 605

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