Malini Johar Schueller

"This book examines colonial education as a technology of U.S. power in the Philippines and Japan, tracking discourses on U.S. tutelage in policy, textbooks, short stories, novels, films, and essays by writers in the Philippines, Japan, and the diaspora"--

U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan

Campaigns of Knowledge

Ashley Dawson

Exceptional State analyzes the nexus of culture and contemporary manifestations of U.S. imperialism. The contributors, established and emerging cultural studies scholars, define culture broadly to include a range of media, literature, and political discourse. They do not posit September 11, 2001 as the beginning of U.S. belligerence and authoritarianism at home and abroad, but they do provide context for understanding U.S. responses to and uses of that event. Taken together, the essays stress both the continuities and discontinuities embodied in a present-day U.S. imperialism constituted through expressions of millennialism, exceptionalism, technological might, and visions of world dominance. The contributors address a range of topics, paying particular attention to the dynamics of gender and race. Their essays include a surprising reading of the ostensibly liberal movies Wag the Dog and Three Kings, an exploration of the rhetoric surrounding the plan to remake the military into a high-tech force less dependent on human bodies, a look at the significance of the popular Left Behind series of novels, and an interpretation of the Abu Ghraib prison photos. They scrutinize the national narrative created to justify the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the ways that women in those countries have responded to the invasions, the contradictions underlying calls for U.S. humanitarian interventions, and the role of Africa in the U.S. imperial imagination. The volume concludes on a hopeful note, with a look at an emerging anti-imperialist public sphere. Contributors. Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson, Cynthia Enloe, Melani McAlister, Christian Parenti, Donald E. Pease, John Carlos Rowe, Malini Johar Schueller, Harilaos Stecopoulos

Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism

Exceptional State

Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship

Locating Race

Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors

Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890

U.S. Orientalisms

Edward Watts

When exploring the links between America and post-colonialism, scholars tend to think either in terms of contemporary multiculturalism, or of imperialism since 1898. This book challenges the idea of early America's immunity from issues of imperialism.

Postcoloniality and Early American Studies

Messy Beginnings

DIVExplores the role culture plays in legitimating, unsettling, and contesting America's aggressively interventionist foreign policy since 9/11./div

Malini Johar Schueller

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