Rethinking America The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century [Hardcover]

How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here at home ? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of the new imperialism from the unique vantage point of the newly emerging U.S. homeland. Comprised of work from leading figures in the field of U.S. ethnography, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place in the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.Prologue: The Death of Neoliberalism? Ida Susser Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking America Jeff Maskovsky and Ida Susser PART I: HUMAN RIGHTS AND IMPERIALISM AT HOME AND AWAY Chapter 1: U.S. Foreign Military Bases: The Edge and Essence of Empire Catherine Lutz Chapter 2: JROTC and Latina/o Youth in Neoliberal Cities Gina Perez Chapter 3: Human Rights in the Imperial Heartland Sally Engle Merry Chapter 4: Torture Is US: Public Amnesia and the School of the Americas Lesley Gill Chapter 5: Imperial Moralities Ida Susser PART II: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CULTURE WARS Chapter 6: Whose Homeland? The New Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the U.S. Public Sphere Micaela di Leonardo Chapter 7: Home Front: The Culture of U.S. Imperialism from Vietnam to Iraq August Carbonella Chapter 8: Ghetto Fabulous in the Imperial United States: Black Consumption and the Death of Civil Rights Roopali Mukhuerjee PART III: GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF PREEMPTIVE WAR Chapter 9: Torture and the Biopolitics of Race Dorothy Roberts Cl.