Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies -- Syllabus: Comparative American Studies: An Introduction -- Creating the Multicultural Nation: Adventures in Post-Nationalist American Studies in the 1990s -- Syllabus: Introduction to American Studies and Ethnicity -- Rethinking (and Reteaching) the Civil Religion in Post-Nationalist American Studies -- Syllabus: (Re)Teaching the Civil Religion: Religion in American Lives -- Foreign Affairs: Women, War, and the Pacific -- Syllabus: Pacific America: War, Memory, and Imagination -- Making Comparisons: First Contact, Ethnocentrism, and Cross-Cultural Communication -- Syllabus: Making Comparisons -- Race, Nation, and Equality: Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and a Genealogy of U.S. Mercantilism -- Syllabus: Enclosing the "Open Sea": Race, Nation, Gender, and Equality in the Northern Atlantic -- Joaquín Murrieta and the American 1848 -- Syllabus: 1848: Empire, Amnesia, and American Studies -- My Border Stories: Life Narratives, Interdisciplinarity, and Post-Nationalism in Ethnic Studies -- Syllabus: Race and Gender in American Autobiography -- How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture -- Syllabus: Buying and Selling the Exotic: Transnational Culture and Global History -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.