Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where
everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious
times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that
civic belonging comes with strings attached--riddled with
limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already
here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of
belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere"
in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other
place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet,
in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with
potential. In the face of America's daunting challenges, can
"elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose? Through 12
detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the
humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of
social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental
"progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself
torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health
care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and
fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring
tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in
America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces
of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to
such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and
intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity,
normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories
are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics,
cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).
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