Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments vii Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1 Posthegemonic What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45 The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76 The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93 Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111 C. L. R. James, Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135 Comparativist Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167 Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183 The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211 Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231 Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248 Differential Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269 Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305 Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327 Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341 Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371 American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387 Counterhegemonic Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419 “Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441 Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461 American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486 The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510 Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536 Afterword ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559 Bibliography 581 Contributors 609 Index 613

A state-of-the-art portrait of the field of American studies -- its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the future.