Product Description: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: When scholars imagine American postcolonialism, they think either of contemporary multiculturalism or imperialism since 1898. This narrow view has left more than the two prior centuries of colonizing literary and political culture unexamined...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: U.S. Orientalisms is the first extensive and politicized study of nineteenth century American discourses that helped build an idea of nationhood with control over three "Orients": the "Barbary" Orient; the Orient of Egypt; and the Orient of India...read more