Volume 66 (2021), Issue 1
Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump. Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann (Guest Editors)
Complete Issue
Volume 66.1 (2021) open-access
Front Matter
Front Matter open-access
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Contents
Contents open-access
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Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump
“Democracy Is Fragile”: A Foreword open-access
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Common Grounds?—A Preface open-access
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I. Prologue
Eulogy for Detroit 1967 open-access
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II. Presence of a Divided Past
The Problem of America Is the Foundational Post on Which It Stands open-access
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“Hold Them to Account”. Richard Sennett in Conversation with Boris Vormann open-access
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Tear Them Down: Old Statues, Bad Science, and Ideas That Just Won’t Die open-access
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Twilight of the American Idols? Statue Politics between the Movement for Black Lives and Trumpism open-access
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On the Racial Fantasies of White Liberals in Trump’s America and Beyond open-access
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The Hidden Violence of Tree-Lined Streets open-access
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No Common Ground: U.S. “Democracy” as Condition of Terror open-access
Page 67 - 71
Committed Writing as Common Ground: Jesmyn Ward’s Poetics of Breathing While Black open-access
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Racial Disruptions: Asian American Optics in a Provisional Democracy open-access
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Serial Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment: Revisiting a Feminist Legacy open-access
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Equal Pay Now! The “Gender Pay Gap” in Transatlantic Perspective. Birte Meier in Conversation with Heike Paul open-access
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Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide? Military Spouses in Post-9/11 U.S. Culture open-access
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Dream a Little American Dream with Me: Income Inequality and Social Mobility in the United States open-access
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Disruption and Abrasion: American Social Media as Contested Infrastructures open-access
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A Common Groundlessness: Trans Aesthetics, Ontological Pluralism, and Imaginary Warfare in the Contemporary United States open-access
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Again and Again and Again open-access
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III. Futures Foreseen
Democracy, Division, and an Attempted Coup open-access
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The "Après-Coup": President Trump’s Transfer of Power open-access
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Deep Divides: The Fault Lines Actually Disrupting American Democracy open-access
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Expanding the Analytical Domain: American Democracy and Its Predatory Economies open-access
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No, Your Other Left! The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party open-access
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Dispatches from a Dying Empire open-access
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Interregnum or Transformation? open-access
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Recognition Returning Home: An International Law Perspective on the Interregnum after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections open-access
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The Three United States of Americas I Have Known: Three Eras Resulting in the Loss of “Common Ground” between the United States and Europe open-access
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74 Million Questions open-access
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This Is Not a Jeremiad open-access
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Against Murderous Passivity, or Reading Hannah Arendt under Lockdown open-access
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Maximalist Expectations in an Age of Anti-Populism open-access
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Please Send Queer Food open-access
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Anti-Blackness in Education and the Possibilities of Redress: Toward Educational Reparations open-access
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American Democracy after Trump and the Challenges of Transnational American Studies. Alfred Hornung in Conversation with Mita Banerjee open-access
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The Transnational Dimensions of Anti-Black Policing and Black Resistance. Vanessa E. Thompson in Conversation with Cedric Essi open-access
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Abandoning Time: Black Nihilism and the Democratic Imagination open-access
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Radical Refusal and the Potential of Queer Indigenous Futures open-access
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Monsters in a Moment of Danger: Global Climate Justice and U.S. Obligations open-access
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Sense of an Ending: On Apocalyptic Maneuvers and Ethics of Collapse open-access
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Beyond American Dystopia: On the Rise of Apocalyptic Visions in the Contemporary United States open-access
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American Utopia and Climate Change open-access
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It’s 2023: Here’s How We Fixed the Global Economy open-access
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IV. Epilogue
We Want Our City Back open-access
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Review Essays
European Perspectives on the United States in Times of Populism, Protests, and the Pandemic open-access
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The Donald, FLOTUS, and the Gendered Labors of Celebrity Politics at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue open-access
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Black Lives Matter: Three Key Texts open-access
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The Politics of Health: Diagnosing America’s Democracy through Social Rights, Advocacy, Inequalities, and Addiction open-access
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Contributors
List of Contributors open-access
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