American Orientalism was a German-influenced latecomer to the field

Evidence

Also it is perfectly clear that American Orientalists looked to Germany for inspiration and guidance. … In 1841 Salisbury was appointed Professor of Arabic and Sanskrit at Yale. This was the first Orientalist teaching post in the United States. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 380

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the later American intellectual stars imported from Europe (referenced in same chapter) and parallels how the US built other disciplines on German academic models. — connects to: Empire shifting to the US carried Orientalist scholars across the Atlantic with it; American Orientalism couples inherited European alienness claims with produced Arab stereotypes. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204

Related

• British, French, then American Orientalism follows the rise and fall of colonial empires (similarity 0.83)
• American Orientalism was shaped by domestic Asian migrants rather than direct colonial administration (similarity 0.82)
• Empire shifting to the US carried Orientalist scholars across the Atlantic with it (similarity 0.81)
• European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus (similarity 0.80)
• American Orientalism recruited many prominent Arab-born scholars (similarity 0.80)
• American Orientalism persists fragmentarily but ideologically coherently (similarity 0.80)
• Oriental studies were reconceived as instruments of national policy toward postcolonial nations (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. (similarity 0.80)
• European Orientalism was normalized and domesticated into American area studies (similarity 0.79)
• American Oriental studies were founded to emulate European imperial frameworks (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (similarity 0.79)
• Without a philological tradition, America reframed the Orient as an administrative matter for policy (similarity 0.79)
• Academic study of Islam only began with Orientalism’s language training (similarity 0.78)
• Orientalism began as discourse before hardening into material institutions and state policy. (similarity 0.78)