"This edited collection emphasizes public discourse and the related circulation of debates, practices, and commodities that get perceived abroad as having an American origin, such as hip-hop in Japan or the organization of higher education in Germany. These essays provide a unique, global perspective on America, because they are authored by Americanist scholars situated outside of the United States, and working in Britain, Japan, Germany, Kazakhstan, Egypt, South Africa, Panama, Mexico, the Republic of Georgia, Hungary, Norway, and Poland. Encompassing a range of disciplines, including literary studies, art history, political science, and sociology, the collection aims to provide a series of in-depth case studies that focus on specific cultural practices, as well as the importation and exportation of institutional organizational systems. Rather than simply accepting as its starting point the idea of 'Pro-Americanism' and 'Anti-Americanism, ' this project analyzes the production of those concepts when attached to specific social practices, and uncovers the impact that such labeling has on social change within the specific cultural and political contexts of disparate locations. The collection emerges out of research done by the International Forum for U.S. Studies scholars, and includes essays that cover a range of topics, such as the Arab uprising in Egypt, 9/11, U.S.-Latin American relations, and global responses to the Civil Rights Movement"-- Provided by publisher.

Prologue : Reading "America" Across and Against the Grain of Public Discourse / Jane C. Desmond -- Introduction : The "American" Conundrum--Criticism, Attraction, and Antagonisms / Virginia R. Domínguez, with Sophia Balakian -- Part I. Whose "America"? Whose "Anti-Americanism"? 1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too : White (West- ) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement / Sabine Broeck -- 2. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism : An Italian Perspective / Giorgio Mariani -- Second Look - Sabine Broeck on Giorgio Mariani -- Second Look - Giorgio Mariani on Sabine Broeck -- Third Look - Sophia Balakian on Mariani and Broeck - "Sticks and Stones : Discourses of Anti-Americanism as Name-Calling -- Part II . Histories of Engagements : Two Case Studies Looking at Domestic Consumption and Their Contexts. 3. Americanization and Anti-Americanism in Poland : A Case Study, 1945-2006 / Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek -- 4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia : A Historical Snapshot from 2005 / Loes Nas -- Second Look - Loes Nas on Kate Delaney and Andrzej Antoszek -- Second Look - Sophia Balakian on Loes Nas -- Third Look - Jane C. Desmond on Delaney & Antoszek and Nas - "Reversing the Vectors of Analysis : Calibrating the 'Use Value' of Discourses of 'Americanism, ' 'Americanization, ' and 'Anti-Americanism'" -- Part III . Debating the Terms of Debate. 5. Kefaya and the New Politics of Anti-Americanism / Manar Shorbagy -- 6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia / Edward Schatz -- Second Look - Manar Shorbagy on Edward Schatz -- Second Look - Edward Schatz on Manar Shorbagy -- Third Look - Seyed Mohammad Marandi on Schatz and Shorbagy - "What Is Anti-Americanism?" -- Third Look - Ira Dworkin on Schatz and Shorbagy - "Thinking Outside of America : The State, the Street, and Civil Society" -- Part IV . Visual Engagements and Their Interpretations. 7. Lost and Found in Translation : Problems of Cultural Translation in Hungary after 1989 / Zsófia Bán -- 8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood : The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace / Richard Ellis -- Second Look - Richard Ellis on Zsófia Bán -- Second Look - Zsófia Bán on Richard Ellis -- Third Look - Ana Mauad on Bán and Ellis - An Imagined Community for the Twenty-First Century? -- Part V. Disrupting Binaries : Whose "Country Music" and Whose "Hip-Hop"? 9. Tales of the West : "Americanization" in an Era of "Europeanization" / Kristin Solli -- 10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power : Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture / Ian Condry -- Second Look - Ian Condry on Kristin Solli -- Second Look - Kristin Solli on Ian Condry -- Third Look - Michael Titlestad on Solli and Condry - "Dreaming America" -- Part VI . Is It "Americanization" or "Pro-Americanism"? The Americas, Pan-Americanism, and Immigration. 11. "Making Pals in Panama" : U.S.-Latin American Relations and the Trope of the Good Neighbor in Coca-Cola Advertising during the 1940s / Amy Spellacy -- 12. Americanism and Anti-Americanism of Mexican Immigrants in Los Angeles / Guillermo Ibarra -- Second Look - Guillermo Ibarra on Amy Spellacy -- Second Look - Amy Spellacy on Guillermo Ibarra -- Third Look - Virginia R. Domínguez on Spellacy and Ibarra - "Not Just for Latin Americanists."