Tony Silva
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479801091
- eISBN:
- 9781479801084
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801091.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
Hundreds of thousands of straight American men have had sex with multiple men. Not all are closeted gay or bisexual men. Nor are they all just experimenting. This book examines the stories of sixty ...
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Hundreds of thousands of straight American men have had sex with multiple men. Not all are closeted gay or bisexual men. Nor are they all just experimenting. This book examines the stories of sixty such men in rural areas and small towns across the Pacific Northwest, the Mountain West, and the Midwest. They identified as straight primarily because they are embedded in institutions and communities that reward male heterosexuality and masculinity. The author refers to all of this as “straight culture.” Most identified as straight not because they hated gay or bisexual men. Instead, they felt that most aspects of their lives were heterosexual. Those married to women wanted to stay that way and saw their role as a husband as key to their straightness. They considered their sex with men mostly irrelevant to their identity. All described themselves as masculine, too, and many felt that identifying as gay or bisexual would have threatened their masculinity. Wanting to avoid discrimination and enjoying being part of a socially dominant group played roles as well. Most of these men were also primarily or exclusively attracted to women. Many began having sex with men only later in life to continue having sex but without feeling as though they were cheating on their wives. The stories of the men interviewed are filled with irony and paradox yet are also genuine. Overall, the book explores this question: What if heterosexuality, and particularly male heterosexuality, is not always what it seems?Less
Hundreds of thousands of straight American men have had sex with multiple men. Not all are closeted gay or bisexual men. Nor are they all just experimenting. This book examines the stories of sixty such men in rural areas and small towns across the Pacific Northwest, the Mountain West, and the Midwest. They identified as straight primarily because they are embedded in institutions and communities that reward male heterosexuality and masculinity. The author refers to all of this as “straight culture.” Most identified as straight not because they hated gay or bisexual men. Instead, they felt that most aspects of their lives were heterosexual. Those married to women wanted to stay that way and saw their role as a husband as key to their straightness. They considered their sex with men mostly irrelevant to their identity. All described themselves as masculine, too, and many felt that identifying as gay or bisexual would have threatened their masculinity. Wanting to avoid discrimination and enjoying being part of a socially dominant group played roles as well. Most of these men were also primarily or exclusively attracted to women. Many began having sex with men only later in life to continue having sex but without feeling as though they were cheating on their wives. The stories of the men interviewed are filled with irony and paradox yet are also genuine. Overall, the book explores this question: What if heterosexuality, and particularly male heterosexuality, is not always what it seems?
Ray Brescia and Eric Stern (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479801701
- eISBN:
- 9781479801725
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801701.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
As globalization increases, and an interlocking web of nations, governments, nonstate actors, laws, and rules affect human behavior, lawyers are often among the first responders when crises hit and ...
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As globalization increases, and an interlocking web of nations, governments, nonstate actors, laws, and rules affect human behavior, lawyers are often among the first responders when crises hit and have a key and growing role in resolving them. Indeed, when crises occur, the need for lawyers to step in to help resolve and to craft solutions to problems resulting those crises create is acute. This book explores this phenomenon and attempts to identify and define what it means to engage in the practice of law during crisis situations. In so doing, it hopes to further define the contours of the emerging field of crisis lawyering. The discussion includes crisis management, professionalism, and legal ethics. What is more, it not only provides guidance to lawyers in such situations but also helps them understand crises better so that they can respond more effectively, efficiently, appropriately, and creatively. This volume strives to improve crisis and emergency responses by shining a light on the role of the law and the lawyers who help resolve crises. It offers insights into an emerging field of legal practice—what we call “crisis lawyering.”Less
As globalization increases, and an interlocking web of nations, governments, nonstate actors, laws, and rules affect human behavior, lawyers are often among the first responders when crises hit and have a key and growing role in resolving them. Indeed, when crises occur, the need for lawyers to step in to help resolve and to craft solutions to problems resulting those crises create is acute. This book explores this phenomenon and attempts to identify and define what it means to engage in the practice of law during crisis situations. In so doing, it hopes to further define the contours of the emerging field of crisis lawyering. The discussion includes crisis management, professionalism, and legal ethics. What is more, it not only provides guidance to lawyers in such situations but also helps them understand crises better so that they can respond more effectively, efficiently, appropriately, and creatively. This volume strives to improve crisis and emergency responses by shining a light on the role of the law and the lawyers who help resolve crises. It offers insights into an emerging field of legal practice—what we call “crisis lawyering.”
Alison Piepmeier
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479816637
- eISBN:
- 9781479827183
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479816637.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
Unexpected is a feminist meditation on parenthood and disability in an age of genomics. It examines a rich array of cultural narratives about parenting disabled children, particularly those with Down ...
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Unexpected is a feminist meditation on parenthood and disability in an age of genomics. It examines a rich array of cultural narratives about parenting disabled children, particularly those with Down syndrome: published memoirs and excerpts from Alison Piepmeier’s interviews with parents and prospective parents, as well as the pronouncements and implied narratives of bioethicists, cultural critics, and disability advocates. The book splices Piepmeier’s scholarly work with life writing about the experience of being a single parent to a daughter with Down syndrome and her own disabling illness.Less
Unexpected is a feminist meditation on parenthood and disability in an age of genomics. It examines a rich array of cultural narratives about parenting disabled children, particularly those with Down syndrome: published memoirs and excerpts from Alison Piepmeier’s interviews with parents and prospective parents, as well as the pronouncements and implied narratives of bioethicists, cultural critics, and disability advocates. The book splices Piepmeier’s scholarly work with life writing about the experience of being a single parent to a daughter with Down syndrome and her own disabling illness.
Jennie Germann Molz
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479891689
- eISBN:
- 9781479815128
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479891689.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This is a book about worldschooling and the families who educate their young children while traveling the world. Adopted primarily by white, middle-class parents from the Global North, worldschooling ...
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This is a book about worldschooling and the families who educate their young children while traveling the world. Adopted primarily by white, middle-class parents from the Global North, worldschooling represents a new kind of life strategy, one that starts with seeing the world as their children’s classroom, but extends to the way worldschoolers parent, perform family life, work digitally and remotely, create communities online and on the road, and negotiate a sense of belonging and global citizenship on the move. While worldschooling appears to be a countercultural practice, it is actually emblematic of the mobile lifestyles that are becoming more common in contemporary society as individuals search for the “good life” in uncertain times. Based on a “mobile virtual ethnography” of traveling families, the book illustrates how this mobile lifestyle project is interwoven with the new individualism of late modernity, the new technical and economic arrangements of neoliberal capitalism, and the new uncertainties of life in a risk society. Each chapter details the strategies worldschooling parents deploy to live a good and morally justifiable life under the turbulent conditions of late modernity while preparing their children to thrive in an uncertain future. This analysis reveals that mobile lifestyles do not transcend social hierarchies, but introduce new mechanisms of distinction. Instead of transmitting economic capital to their children, worldschooling parents secure their children’s position of privilege in an uncertain world by equipping them with new forms of social, emotional, and cultural capital derived through mobility.Less
This is a book about worldschooling and the families who educate their young children while traveling the world. Adopted primarily by white, middle-class parents from the Global North, worldschooling represents a new kind of life strategy, one that starts with seeing the world as their children’s classroom, but extends to the way worldschoolers parent, perform family life, work digitally and remotely, create communities online and on the road, and negotiate a sense of belonging and global citizenship on the move. While worldschooling appears to be a countercultural practice, it is actually emblematic of the mobile lifestyles that are becoming more common in contemporary society as individuals search for the “good life” in uncertain times. Based on a “mobile virtual ethnography” of traveling families, the book illustrates how this mobile lifestyle project is interwoven with the new individualism of late modernity, the new technical and economic arrangements of neoliberal capitalism, and the new uncertainties of life in a risk society. Each chapter details the strategies worldschooling parents deploy to live a good and morally justifiable life under the turbulent conditions of late modernity while preparing their children to thrive in an uncertain future. This analysis reveals that mobile lifestyles do not transcend social hierarchies, but introduce new mechanisms of distinction. Instead of transmitting economic capital to their children, worldschooling parents secure their children’s position of privilege in an uncertain world by equipping them with new forms of social, emotional, and cultural capital derived through mobility.
Todd Shaw, Robert A. Brown, and Joseph P. McCormick (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479807277
- eISBN:
- 9781479896578
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479807277.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This book engages the reader in a wide-ranging assessment of the legacy of Barack Obama—the “first Black president”—relative to Black politics. It uses its vantage point of being written during ...
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This book engages the reader in a wide-ranging assessment of the legacy of Barack Obama—the “first Black president”—relative to Black politics. It uses its vantage point of being written during Donald Trump’s presidency to understand what Black politics has and has not inherited from the Obama administration. It is comprehensive in the number of constituencies and policy topics it covers. Its co-editors frame its chapters by explaining how both “inverted linked fate” and an “inclusionary dilemma” shaped the Obama presidency and legacy for Black politics. Nearly twenty prominent or emerging political scientists provide this book’s interior chapters, using quantitative and qualitative methods to draw conclusions. The first group of scholars examines the Obama administration’s impact upon the attitudes and perceived group interests of various Black constituencies, including voters, partisans, civil rights leaders, lobbyists, women, church leaders and members, and LGBTQ persons. The second group examines Obama’s impact upon Black policy interests, including civil rights, criminal justice reform, antipoverty, women’s welfare, healthcare reform, housing, immigration, and foreign affairs. In the conclusion, the co-editors consider what may confront the “next Black president” and the “next Black America.”Less
This book engages the reader in a wide-ranging assessment of the legacy of Barack Obama—the “first Black president”—relative to Black politics. It uses its vantage point of being written during Donald Trump’s presidency to understand what Black politics has and has not inherited from the Obama administration. It is comprehensive in the number of constituencies and policy topics it covers. Its co-editors frame its chapters by explaining how both “inverted linked fate” and an “inclusionary dilemma” shaped the Obama presidency and legacy for Black politics. Nearly twenty prominent or emerging political scientists provide this book’s interior chapters, using quantitative and qualitative methods to draw conclusions. The first group of scholars examines the Obama administration’s impact upon the attitudes and perceived group interests of various Black constituencies, including voters, partisans, civil rights leaders, lobbyists, women, church leaders and members, and LGBTQ persons. The second group examines Obama’s impact upon Black policy interests, including civil rights, criminal justice reform, antipoverty, women’s welfare, healthcare reform, housing, immigration, and foreign affairs. In the conclusion, the co-editors consider what may confront the “next Black president” and the “next Black America.”
Ken R. Crane
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479873944
- eISBN:
- 9781479812448
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479873944.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
There are numerous and trenchant accounts of the tragic and disastrous Iraq War (2003–2011), which focus on its financial, human, and political cost to the US. Less has been written about the human ...
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There are numerous and trenchant accounts of the tragic and disastrous Iraq War (2003–2011), which focus on its financial, human, and political cost to the US. Less has been written about the human cost to the Iraqi people in the largest displacement in the Middle East since 1948. Few Americans are cognizant that over three million Iraqis, many facing violence due to their cooperation with the US invasion and occupation, fled Iraq and that 124,159 were resettled in the US from 2008 to 2015 after an intense lobbying effort by former aid personnel and veterans. This ethnographic study explores the cartography of belonging for Iraqi refugees within a specific cultural geography—California’s Latinx-majority communities of southeastern California (known as the Inland Empire). The fieldwork in the IE spans a particular geopolitical era of resettlement mobilization, the Great Recession, and the December 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The attack was immediately followed by candidate Donald Trump’s naming of Arab and Muslim refugees (including Iraqis) as threats to national security. With the mainstreaming of Islamophobia during the presidential election, the United States ceased to be a free space of religious and communal expression. Drawing on seven years of fieldwork with fifty Iraqi refugees, this book is a witness to how the felt sense of belonging—cultural citizenship—is negotiated within the social spaces of work, family, faith community.Less
There are numerous and trenchant accounts of the tragic and disastrous Iraq War (2003–2011), which focus on its financial, human, and political cost to the US. Less has been written about the human cost to the Iraqi people in the largest displacement in the Middle East since 1948. Few Americans are cognizant that over three million Iraqis, many facing violence due to their cooperation with the US invasion and occupation, fled Iraq and that 124,159 were resettled in the US from 2008 to 2015 after an intense lobbying effort by former aid personnel and veterans. This ethnographic study explores the cartography of belonging for Iraqi refugees within a specific cultural geography—California’s Latinx-majority communities of southeastern California (known as the Inland Empire). The fieldwork in the IE spans a particular geopolitical era of resettlement mobilization, the Great Recession, and the December 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The attack was immediately followed by candidate Donald Trump’s naming of Arab and Muslim refugees (including Iraqis) as threats to national security. With the mainstreaming of Islamophobia during the presidential election, the United States ceased to be a free space of religious and communal expression. Drawing on seven years of fieldwork with fifty Iraqi refugees, this book is a witness to how the felt sense of belonging—cultural citizenship—is negotiated within the social spaces of work, family, faith community.
Arden Rowell and Kenworthey Bilz
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479812301
- eISBN:
- 9781479807574
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479812301.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This is a book about the psychology of environmental law. Psychology can affect environmental legal doctrine and institutions by affecting how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions ...
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This is a book about the psychology of environmental law. Psychology can affect environmental legal doctrine and institutions by affecting how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment. Where environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that injure and affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape those behaviors. Yet there is no robust tradition of psychological analysis within environmental law. This book is intended to help change that, by sparking and supporting discussion about how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates. It begins by identifying what is distinctively psychological about environmental law, arguing that many of the characteristics that make environmental injury distinctive also implicate distinctive psychological phenomena, and understanding those phenomena can help in crafting, enforcing, and understanding the impact of laws that seek to manage environmental injury. In particular, it suggests that the distinctively diffuse, complex, and nonhuman character of environmental injury has psychological as well as legal implications. The book then explores the payoff of applying a psychological analysis to environmental law, exploring the policy, practical, and doctrinal implications of psychology in pollution control, ecosystem management, and climate change law and policy.Less
This is a book about the psychology of environmental law. Psychology can affect environmental legal doctrine and institutions by affecting how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment. Where environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that injure and affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape those behaviors. Yet there is no robust tradition of psychological analysis within environmental law. This book is intended to help change that, by sparking and supporting discussion about how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates. It begins by identifying what is distinctively psychological about environmental law, arguing that many of the characteristics that make environmental injury distinctive also implicate distinctive psychological phenomena, and understanding those phenomena can help in crafting, enforcing, and understanding the impact of laws that seek to manage environmental injury. In particular, it suggests that the distinctively diffuse, complex, and nonhuman character of environmental injury has psychological as well as legal implications. The book then explores the payoff of applying a psychological analysis to environmental law, exploring the policy, practical, and doctrinal implications of psychology in pollution control, ecosystem management, and climate change law and policy.
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479801480
- eISBN:
- 9781479801503
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479801480.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
When the Medium Was the Mission traces the shaping influence of religion—particularly US Protestantism—on network culture through the story of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. In the middle of ...
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When the Medium Was the Mission traces the shaping influence of religion—particularly US Protestantism—on network culture through the story of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. In the middle of the nineteenth century, this medium was emphatically the mission of Protestant missionaries to “civilize” non-Protestants, public figures who used the telegraph to establish an implicitly Christian national culture, of utopianists who understood this new technology to herald the advent of global and divine accord, and of all the many who passionately believed the cable would connect the world. People acting in the name of religion—from US Protestant missionaries to the Ottoman sultan—spread Samuel Morse’s telegraph machine around the world and linked the telegraph to an emerging discourse of global unity. Christian tropes infused enthusiasm into fantastical public discourse about telegraphs’ capacity to connect, new religious communities in the United States indelibly affiliated networks with promises of perfect harmony, and Protestant-inflected religious affect charged essentially meaningless signals with profound cultural significance. In all of these activities, religion forged imaginaries of networks as connective, so much so that connection now defines networks, despite networks’ regular reliance on disconnection. The book analyzes documentary evidence of US enthusiasm for telegraph infrastructure—including missionary accounts, public speeches, celebratory memorabilia, religious publications, and telegrams—to demonstrate the vital ways religion helped to establish communication networks and produce an abiding sense of what networks are and what they can do.Less
When the Medium Was the Mission traces the shaping influence of religion—particularly US Protestantism—on network culture through the story of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable of 1858. In the middle of the nineteenth century, this medium was emphatically the mission of Protestant missionaries to “civilize” non-Protestants, public figures who used the telegraph to establish an implicitly Christian national culture, of utopianists who understood this new technology to herald the advent of global and divine accord, and of all the many who passionately believed the cable would connect the world. People acting in the name of religion—from US Protestant missionaries to the Ottoman sultan—spread Samuel Morse’s telegraph machine around the world and linked the telegraph to an emerging discourse of global unity. Christian tropes infused enthusiasm into fantastical public discourse about telegraphs’ capacity to connect, new religious communities in the United States indelibly affiliated networks with promises of perfect harmony, and Protestant-inflected religious affect charged essentially meaningless signals with profound cultural significance. In all of these activities, religion forged imaginaries of networks as connective, so much so that connection now defines networks, despite networks’ regular reliance on disconnection. The book analyzes documentary evidence of US enthusiasm for telegraph infrastructure—including missionary accounts, public speeches, celebratory memorabilia, religious publications, and telegrams—to demonstrate the vital ways religion helped to establish communication networks and produce an abiding sense of what networks are and what they can do.
Louise Marie Roth
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479812257
- eISBN:
- 9781479826117
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479812257.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
The Business of Birth examines the effects of malpractice and reproductive rights laws on maternity care practices in the US from 1995 to 2015. It is a common public belief that frivolous malpractice ...
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The Business of Birth examines the effects of malpractice and reproductive rights laws on maternity care practices in the US from 1995 to 2015. It is a common public belief that frivolous malpractice claims and women’s choices shape hospital birth practices. This book uses mixed methods to demonstrate that this belief is inaccurate. The Business of Birth carefully documents how there are interconnected systems of laws and policies, or legal “regimes,” that influence birth practices in unexpected ways. When it comes to malpractice, the standard of care that defines malpractice is internal to the medical profession. This means that tort laws do not exert the external pressure that physicians believe they do, although professional associations, liability insurers, risk managers, and hospital legal counsel reinforce a fear of liability risk. This fear can encourage obstetricians to intervene into labor and birth with scientifically unsupported technology or procedures with known risks. But reducing liability risk can encourage risky practices that promote organizational efficiency over patient safety. The Business of Birth also examines the implications of reproductive rights laws for maternity care practices, defining states that protect women’s reproductive rights as woman-centered and those that protect fetuses as fetus-centered. Reproductive justice theory argues that pregnant women’s rights during childbirth are connected to laws governing the full spectrum of reproduction. Woman-centered approaches to pregnancy and abortion promote choice, informed consent, and the right to bodily integrity when women give birth, while fetus-centered regimes limit women’s rights and choices during birth.Less
The Business of Birth examines the effects of malpractice and reproductive rights laws on maternity care practices in the US from 1995 to 2015. It is a common public belief that frivolous malpractice claims and women’s choices shape hospital birth practices. This book uses mixed methods to demonstrate that this belief is inaccurate. The Business of Birth carefully documents how there are interconnected systems of laws and policies, or legal “regimes,” that influence birth practices in unexpected ways. When it comes to malpractice, the standard of care that defines malpractice is internal to the medical profession. This means that tort laws do not exert the external pressure that physicians believe they do, although professional associations, liability insurers, risk managers, and hospital legal counsel reinforce a fear of liability risk. This fear can encourage obstetricians to intervene into labor and birth with scientifically unsupported technology or procedures with known risks. But reducing liability risk can encourage risky practices that promote organizational efficiency over patient safety. The Business of Birth also examines the implications of reproductive rights laws for maternity care practices, defining states that protect women’s reproductive rights as woman-centered and those that protect fetuses as fetus-centered. Reproductive justice theory argues that pregnant women’s rights during childbirth are connected to laws governing the full spectrum of reproduction. Woman-centered approaches to pregnancy and abortion promote choice, informed consent, and the right to bodily integrity when women give birth, while fetus-centered regimes limit women’s rights and choices during birth.
Michael Pfeifer
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781479829453
- eISBN:
- 9781479804184
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479829453.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book ...
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The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the book carefully explores the history of American Catholic cultures across regions and their relation to factors such as national origin, ethnicity, race, and gender. The chapters include close analysis of the historical experiences of Latinx and African American Catholics as well as European immigrant Catholics. Eschewing a national or nationalistic focus that might elide or neglect global connections or local complexity, the book offers an interpretation of the American Catholic experience that encompasses local, national, and transnational histories by emphasizing the diverse origins of Catholics in the United States, their long-standing ties to transnational communities of Catholic believers, and the role of region in shaping the contours of American Catholic religiosity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book argues that regional American Catholic cultures and a larger American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholic laity and clergy ecclesiastically linked to and by Rome in a hierarchical, authoritarian, and communalistic “universal Church” creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts that emphasized notions of republicanism, religious liberty, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender.Less
The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience argues that regional and transnational relationships have been central to the making of American Catholicism. The book traces the development of Catholic cultures in the South, the Midwest, the West, and the Northeast and their contribution to larger patterns of Catholicism in the United States. Exploring the history of Catholic cultures in New Orleans, Iowa, Wisconsin, Los Angeles, and New York City, the book carefully explores the history of American Catholic cultures across regions and their relation to factors such as national origin, ethnicity, race, and gender. The chapters include close analysis of the historical experiences of Latinx and African American Catholics as well as European immigrant Catholics. Eschewing a national or nationalistic focus that might elide or neglect global connections or local complexity, the book offers an interpretation of the American Catholic experience that encompasses local, national, and transnational histories by emphasizing the diverse origins of Catholics in the United States, their long-standing ties to transnational communities of Catholic believers, and the role of region in shaping the contours of American Catholic religiosity. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book argues that regional American Catholic cultures and a larger American Catholicism developed as transnational Catholic laity and clergy ecclesiastically linked to and by Rome in a hierarchical, authoritarian, and communalistic “universal Church” creatively adapted their devotional and ideological practices in particular American regional contexts that emphasized notions of republicanism, religious liberty, individualistic capitalism, race, ethnicity, and gender.
