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<p>List of Contributors x</p> <p>Acknowledgments xvi</p> <p>Introduction 1<br /><i>John Carlos Rowe</i></p> <p><b>Part I Foundations and Backgrounds 17</b></p> <p>1. Puritan Origins 19<br /><i>Philip F. Gura</i></p> <p>2. Cultural Anthropology and the Routes of American Studies, 1851–1942 36<br /><i>Michael A. Elliott</i></p> <p>3. The Laboring of American Culture 59<br /><i>Michael Denning</i></p> <p>4. Is Class an American Study? 74<br /><i>Paul Lauter</i></p> <p>5. Religious Studies 92<br /><i>Jay Mechling</i></p> <p>6. American Languages 124<br /><i>Joshua L. Miller</i></p> <p><b>Part II Ethnic Studies and American Studies 151</b></p> <p>7. Blood Lines and Blood Shed: Intersectionality and Differential Consciousness in Ethnic Studies and American Studies 153<br /><i>George Lipsitz</i></p> <p>8. Native American Studies 172<br /><i>John Gamber</i></p> <p>9. The Locations of Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies 190<br /><i>Richard T. Rodríguez</i></p> <p>10. African American Studies 210<br /><i>Jared Sexton</i></p> <p>11. Reckoning Nation and Empire: Asian American Critique 229<br /><i>Lisa Lowe</i></p> <p><b>Part III The New American Studies 245</b></p> <p>12. Western Hemispheric Drama and Performance 247<br /><i>Harilaos Stecopoulos</i></p> <p>13. Postnational and Postcolonial Reconfigurations of American Studies in the Postmodern Condition 263<br /><i>Donald Pease</i></p> <p>14. Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization 284<br /><i>John Carlos Rowe</i></p> <p>15. Sugar, Sex, and Empire: Sarah Orne Jewett’s “The Foreigner” and the Spanish-American War 303<br /><i>Rebecca Walsh</i></p> <p>16. The Rapprochement of Technology Studies and American Studies 320<br /><i>David E. Nye</i></p> <p>17. The World Wide Web and Digital Culture: New Borders, New Media, New American Studies 334<br /><i>Matthias Oppermann</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Problems and Issues 351</b></p> <p>18. Regionalism 353<br /><i>Kevin R. McNamara</i></p> <p>19. The West and Manifest Destiny 369<br /><i>Deborah L. Madsen</i></p> <p>20. Canadian Studies and American Studies 387<br /><i>Alyssa MacLean</i></p> <p>21. The US University under Siege: Confronting Academic Unfreedom 407<br /><i>Henry A. Giroux</i></p> <p>22. Popular, Mass, and High Culture 432<br /><i>Shelley Streeby</i></p> <p>Index 453</p>

<b>John Carlos Rowe</b> is USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Chair of the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He has written and edited many books, including <i>The Vietnam War and American Culture</i> (1991), <i>Post-Nationalist American Studies</i> (2000), <i>Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism: From the Revolution to World War II</i> (2000), and <i>The New American Studies</i> (2002).

<i>A Companion to American Studies</i> offers a variety of approaches to the new American Studies, including its relations to allied fields such as Ethnic, Gender, Cultural, Postcolonial, and Media Studies. The volume is divided into four parts: Foundations and Backgrounds; Ethnic Studies and American Studies; The New American Studies; and Problems and Issues. Combining historical essays with theoretical and polemical issues, this companion is designed to provoke discussion and help students and scholars at all levels develop their own approaches to the diverse areas included in contemporary American Studies.

"There is no more masterful guide to the field of American Studies than John Carlos Rowe.  In this volume, he brings together some of the most articulate scholars in the field to map out the key issues defining American studies scholarship at its most exciting and relevant.  This book is an impressive introduction to the key issues of the field today." <i>Marita Sturken, New York University</i> <p>"The stunning and compelling essays collected in this comprehensive volume by John Rowe provide an essential guide to the transformation of the field of American Studies for the 21^st century." <i>George J. Sanchez, University of Southern California</i></p>

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