American studies in a moment of danger / George Lipsitz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lipsitz, George.

Series:

Critical American studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Study and teaching.

Learning and scholarship--Social aspects.

Learning and scholarship.

United States--Study and teaching.

United States.

Learning and scholarship--Social aspects--United States.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

History.

Minorities--Study and teaching--United States.

Minorities.

United States--Social conditions--1945-.

Social conditions.

National characteristics, American.

Physical Description:

xix, 384 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2001]

Summary:

The America that seems to be disappearing before our very eyes is, George Lipsitz argues, actually the cumulative creation of yesterday's struggles over identity, culture, and power. At a critical moment, this book offers a richly textured historical perspective on where our notions of national knowledge have come from and where they may lead. Showing how American studies has been shaped by the social movements of the 1930s, 1960s, and 1980s, Lipsitz identifies the ways in which the globalization of commerce and culture are producing radically new understandings of politics, performance, consumption, knowledge, and nostalgia.

Contents:

Part I. American Studies and Social Movements

1. In the Midnight Hour: American Studies in a Moment of Danger 3

2. Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today: Who Needs the Thirties? 31

3. Dancing in the Dark: Who Needs the Sixties? 57

4. Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Who Needs the Eighties? 83

Part II. Race, Culture, and Collective Struggle

5. Like Crabs in a Barrel: Why Interethnic Anti-Racism Matters Now 117

6. The Lion and the Spider: Mapping Sexuality, Space, and Politics in Miami Music 139

7. Not Just Another Social Movement: Poster Art and the Movimiento Chicano 169

8. As Unmarked as Their Place in History: Genre Anxiety and Race in Seventies Cinema 185

Part III. Facing Up to What's Killing You

9. "Facing Up to What's Killing You": Urban Art and the New Social Movements 213

10. In the Sweet Buy and Buy: Consumer Culture and American Studies 235

11. Taking Positions and the War of Position: The Politics of Academia 271

12. Don't Cry for Me, Ike and Tina: American Studies at the Crossroads 293.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-351) and index.

ISBN:

0816639485

0816639493

OCLC:

47100953