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Amerikastudien / American Studies 66.1 eISSN 2625-2155 66 | 1 2021 A Quarterly Volume 66| Number 1 2021 66| Number Volume CONTENTS COMMON GROUNDS? AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AFTER TRUMP Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann (Guest Editors) I. PROLOGUE Melba Boyd II. PRESENCE OF A DIVIDED PAST Laura Bieger | Eduardo Bonilla-Silva | Elisabeth Bronfen | Katharina Gerund | Diane Glancy | Siri Hustvedt | Christian Lammert | Birte Meier and Heike Paul | Christoph Raetzsch | Dylan Rodríguez | Simon Schleusener | Richard Sennett and Boris Vormann | Barry Shank | Susan Stryker | Linda Trinh Võ | Michael Weinman III. FUTURES FORESEEN Helmut Philipp Aust | John von Bergen | Sheri Berman | Matt Brim | Sabine Broeck | Craig Calhoun | Ramzi Fawaz | Ulrike Guérot | Christine Hentschel | Alfred Hornung and Mita Banerjee | Stefan Höhne | Aysuda Kölemen | Scott Kurashige | Margit Mayer | Mariana Mazzucato | Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne | Pierre-Héli Monot | Donald E. Pease | kihana miraya ross | Saskia Sassen | Julie Sze | Vanessa E. Thompson, and Cedric Essi | Rosemary Wakeman | Calvin Warren IV. EPILOGUE Melba Boyd Common Grounds? American Democracy Journal of the after Trump German Association for Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and American Studies American StudiesBoris Vormann (Guest Editors) Amerikastudien | American Studies (Amst) Studies American Amerikastudien | Amerikastudien general editors Prof. Dr. Carmen Birkle Prof. Dr. Birgit Däwes Philipps-Universität Marburg Europa-Universität Flensburg FB 10: Fremdsprachliche Philologien Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Auf dem Campus 1 Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft D-24943 Flensburg Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6 F Tel. (0049)(0)461-805-2836 D-35032 Marburg Fax. (0049)(0)461-805-2189 Tel. (0049)(0)6421-28-24-345 [email protected] Fax (0049)(0)6421-28-24-343 [email protected] Contact: [email protected] associate editors Dr. Cedric Essi (Osnabrück) Dr. Connor Pitetti (Bochum) Dr. Johanna Heil (Marburg) Johannes Schmid (Flensburg) editorial board Prof. Dr. Ingrid Gessner Prof. Dr. Heike Paul Pädagogische Hochschule Vorarlberg Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- English and American Studies Nürnberg Institut für Sekundarbildung und Fachdidaktik Department of English and American Studies Liechtensteinerstraße 33-37 Bismarckstraße 1 A-6800 Feldkirch D-91054 Erlangen Prof. Dr. Marc Priewe Prof. Dr. Anke Ortlepp Universität Stuttgart Universität zu Köln Institut für Literaturwissenschaft Abteilung für Nordamerikanische Geschichte Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur des Historischen Instituts Keplerstraße 17 Albertus-Magnus-Platz D-70174 Stuttgart D-50923 Köln Prof. Dr. Boris Vormann Bard College Berlin Political Science Platanenstraße 24 D-13156 Berlin readers until 2022: until 2024: until 2026: Christine Gerhardt (Bamberg) Alexandra Ganser-Blumenau (Wien) Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz) Ingrid Gessner (Regensburg) Andrew Gross (Göttingen) Thomas Austenfeld (Fribourg) Martin Klepper (HU Berlin) Joel Johnson (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Nassim Balestrini (Graz) Kerstin Knopf (Bremen) Zuzanna Ladyga (Warsaw) Manfred Berg (Heidelberg) Christian Lammert (FU Berlin) Ruth Mayer (Hannover) Samuel Cohen (Columbia, Missouri) Alan Lessoff (Illinois State) Tatiani Rapatzikou (Thessaloniki) Robert Keith Collins (San Francisco Timo Müller (Konstanz) Jane Simonsen (Augustana, Rock Island, State) Greta Olson (Gießen) Illinois) Jeanne Cortiel (Bayreuth) Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez (Leipzig) MaryAnn Snyder-Körber (Würzburg) Susan Gray (Arizona State, Tempe) Ralph Poole (Salzburg) Nicole Waller (Potsdam) Carrie Johnston (Winston-Salem, North Gabriele Rippl (Bern) Simon Wendt (Frankfurt) Carolina) John Carlos Rowe (Southern California) Janne Lahti (Helsinki) Ilka Saal (Erfurt) Charlotte Lerg (München) Kerstin Schmidt (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock) Elizabeth West (Georgia State) Marc Maufort (Brussels) Jutta Zimmermann (Kiel) Sabine Meyer (Osnabrück) Heike Raphael-Hernandez (Würzburg) Michael Wala (Bochum) 66 | 1 Amst 2021 Journal of the A Quarterly German Association for American Studies Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and American StudiesBoris Vormann (Guest Editors) Amerikastudien Edited for the German Association for American Studies by general editors Carmen Birkle Birgit Däwes associate editors Cedric Essi Connor Pitetti Johanna Heil Johannes Schmid editorial board Ingrid Gessner Anke Ortlepp (Review Editor) Heike Paul Marc Priewe Boris Vormann editorial offices Philipps-Universität Marburg Amst FB 10: Fremdsprachliche Philologien Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft Wilhelm-Röpke-Straße 6 F D-35032 Marburg Tel. (0049)(0)6421-28-24-345 Fax (0049)(0)6421-28-24-343 [email protected] Europa-Universität Flensburg Seminar für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Auf dem Campus 1 D-24943 Flensburg Tel. (0049)(0)461-805-2836 Fax. (0049)(0)461-805-2189 [email protected] Open Access This publication is distributed under the terms of the Creative Com- mons License Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Cover Illustration: © Samuel Corum/UPI/Shutterstock, (Stock-nr.: 11704357i President Trump leaves White House to visit border wall, Washington DC, USA – 12 Jan 2021) Universitätsverlag WINTER GmbH, Heidelberg Postfach 10 61 40, D-69051 Heidelberg Typesetting: τ-leχιs, D-69115 Heidelberg Printing and bookbinding: Memminger MedienCentrum GmbH, D-87700 Memmingen Contents Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann (Guest Editors) 7 Carmen Birkle and Birgit Däwes “Democracy Is Fragile”: A Foreword 9 Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann Common Grounds?—A Preface I. PROLOGUE 17 Melba Joyce Boyd Eulogy for Detroit 1967 II. PRESENCE OF A DIVIDED PAST 25 Diane Glancy The Problem of America Is the Foundational Post on Which It Stands 31 Richard Sennett “Hold Them to Account”: Richard Sennett in Conversation with Boris Vormann 37 Siri Hustvedt Tear Them Down: Old Statues, Bad Science, and Ideas That Just Won’t Die 47 Michael Weinman Twilight of the American Idols? Statue Politics between the Movement for Black Lives and Trumpism 53 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva On the Racial Fantasies of White Liberals in Trump’s America and Beyond 59 Barry Shank The Hidden Violence of Tree-Lined Streets Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump 67 Dylan Rodríguez No Common Ground: U.S. “Democracy” as Condition of Terror 73 Laura Bieger Committed Writing as Common Ground: Jesmyn Ward’s Poetics of Breathing while Black 81 Linda Trinh Võ Racial Disruptions: Asian American Optics in a Provisional Democracy 89 Elisabeth Bronfen Serial Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment: Revisiting a Feminist Legacy 95 Birte Meier Equal Pay Now! The “Gender Pay Gap” in Transatlantic Perspective: Birte Meier in Conversation with Heike Paul 103 Katharina Gerund Bridging the Military-Civilian Divide? Military Spouses in Post-9/11 U.S. Culture 111 Christian Lammert Dream a Little American Dream with Me: Income Inequality and Social Mobility in the United States 117 Christoph Raetzsch Disruption and Abrasion: American Social Media as Contested Infrastructures 123 Susan Stryker A Common Groundlessness: Trans Aesthetics, Ontological Pluralism, and Imaginary Warfare in the Contemporary United States 127 Simon Schleusener Again and Again and Again III. FUTURES FORESEEN 135 Craig Calhoun Democracy, Division, and an Attempted Coup 143 Donald E. Pease The Après-Coup: President Trump’s Transfer of Power 155 Margit Mayer Deep Divides: The Fault Lines Actually Disrupting American Democracy 4 Amst 66.1 (2021): 3-6 Contents 163 Saskia Sassen Expanding the Analytical Domain: American Democracy and Its Predatory Economies 169 Aysuda Kölemen No, Your Other Left! The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party 175 Scott Kurashige Dispatches from a Dying Empire 181 Sheri Berman Interregnum or Transformation? 185 Helmut Philipp Aust Recognition Returning Home: An International Law Perspective on the Interregnum after the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections 191 Ulrike Guérot The Three United States of Americas I Have Known: Three Eras Resulting in the Loss of “Common Ground” between the United States and Europe 197 John von Bergen 74 Million Questions 203 Sabine Broeck This Is Not a Jeremiad 209 Ramzi Fawaz Against Murderous Passivity, or Reading Hannah Arendt under Lockdown 215 Pierre-Héli Monot Maximalist Expectations in an Age of Anti-Populism 223 Matt Brim Please Send Queer Food 229 kihana miraya ross Anti-Blackness in Education and the Possibilities of Redress: Toward Educational Reparations 235 Alfred Hornung and Mita Banerjee American Democracy after Trump and the Challenges of Transnational American Studies: A Conversation 241 Vanessa E. Thompson The Transnational Dimensions of Anti-Black Policing and Black Resistance: Vanessa E. Thompson in Conversation with Cedric Essi Amst 66.1 (2021): 3-6 5 Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump 247 Calvin Warren Abandoning Time: Black Nihilism and the Democratic Imagination 253 Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne Radical Refusal and the Potential of Queer Indigenous Futures 259 Julie Sze Monsters in a Moment of Danger: Global Climate Justice and U.S. Obligations 265 Christine Hentschel Sense of an Ending: On Apocalyptic Maneuvers and Ethics of Collapse 271 Stefan Höhne Beyond American Dystopia: On the Rise of Apocalyptic Visions in the Contemporary United States 279 Rosemary Wakeman American Utopia
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