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Chapters include:  Part I. Whose "America"? Whose "Anti-Americanism"? 1. Internationalizing African American Studies, Too: White (West-) German Responses to the Civil Rights Movement ; 2. What We Talk about When We Talk about Anti-Americanism: An Italian Perspective; 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 ; 4. Americanization and Anti-American Attitudes in South Africa and Georgia: A Historical Snapshot from 2005 ; 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 ; 6. Understanding Anti-Americanism in Central Asia ; 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 ; 8. Westward Ho with Kholiwood: The Transnational Turn in the Neoliberal Marketplace ; 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. Disrup ting Binaries: Whose "Country Mu sic" and Whose "Hip-Hop"? 9. Tales of the West: "Americanization" in an Era of "Europeanization" ; 10. Japanese Rappers, 9/11, and Soft Power: Anti-American Sentiments in "American" Popular Culture ; 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 ; Americanism and anti-Americanism of Mexican immigrants in Los Angeles ; 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."