An unfamiliar America : essays in American studies /: essays in American studies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ari Helo, Mikko Saikku.
• Editors: Helo, Ari; Saikku, Mikko
• Contents: Introduction Ari Helo and Mikko Saikku Part 1: Facing and Adapting to an Unfamiliar America 1. "Hoist That Rag": Tom Waits, the Uncanny, and the Old, Weird America Jeffrey L. Meikle 2. "Damn the European Professors": Higher Education and Xenophobia in Jefferson’s Virginia; Alan Taylor 3. "Brave Men to Brave Men": Experiencing Honor and Masculinities on a Settler Colonial Borderland Janne Lahti 4. Aleš Hrdlička and the Boundaries of Whiteness Mark A. Brandon Part 2: Conservatives and Liberals in the Unfamiliar Trumpian America 5. Defending the Unreached and Unknown: American Evangelical Advocacy for International Religious Freedom Lauren F. Turek 6. Elite Unfamiliarity and Popular Recognition: Texas Tea Party Republicans’ Embrace of Donald Trump in 2016 James Henson 7. Trump and the Christian Right: The Political Theology Behind the Mutual Attraction Markku Ruotsila 8. Voting Against the Unfamiliar: The Rural/Urban Divide in U.S. Elections Jerry Pubantz 9. It Can't Happen Here: The Struggle Against Tyranny and the Trouble with Liberalism Bo Pettersson Part 3: African American History and the Present 10. History Matters William H. Chafe 11. Race in the Cultural Politics of the Civil Rights-Era Ku Klux Klan Niko Heikkilä 12. Emmett Till, History and Memory Elliott J. Gorn 13. The Lessons of the Civil Rights Movement for Activists in Xenophobic Times Cheryl Greenberg
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 305.800973; Xenophobia -- United States -- History; Racism -- United States -- History; Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions; Minorities -- Civil rights -- United States -- History; Christianity and politics -- United States; National characteristics, American; United States -- Race relations -- History; United States -- Ethnic relations -- History; United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000218336; 9781000218312; 9781000218329; 9781003092131
• Related ISBNs: 9780367551414
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