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Table of Contents - Volume 41 - Issue 02  

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Research Articles

 
 

“‘Scientific’ Racism Again?”: Reginald Gates, the Mankind Quarterly and the Question of “Race” in Science after the Second World War

GAVIN SCHAFFER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 253-278
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003477 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Allies, Constituents or Myopic Investors: Marcus Garvey and Black Americans

NICHOLAS PATSIDES

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 279-305
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003489 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

The Local and the Global: Gina Nahai and the Taking up of Serpents and Stereotypes

NAHEM YOUSAF

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 307-330
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003490 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

“Writing Reform” in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles: The Sonoratown Anthologies

STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 331-364
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003507 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

“I Improvised behind Him…Ahead of Time”: Charles Mingus, Kenneth Patchen and Jazz/Poetry Fusion Art

HOLLY FARRINGTON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 365-374
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003519 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Rememories of Nevada: Tracing Lineages of the Present

JONATHAN WHITE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 375-404
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003520 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Race, Gender, and Space Exploration: A Chapter in the Social History of the Space Age

KIM MCQUAID

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 405-434
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003532 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Ghetto Formation and Armed Resistance in East St. Louis, Illinois

MALCOLM McLAUGHLIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 435-467
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003544 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Book Reviews

 
 

Douglas R. Anderson, Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006, £16.95/$24.00). Pp. ix+253. isbn 0 8232 2551 8.

RACHEL MALKIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 469-470
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003556 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Anthony Arthur, Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair (New York: Random House, 2006, $27.95). Pp. xiv+377. isbn 1 4000 6151 2.

DAVID SEED

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 470-470
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003568 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Stuart Banner, How the Indians Lost Their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, £18.95/$29.95). Pp. v+344. isbn 0 674 01871 0.

RICHARD A. HAWKINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 471-471
doi:10.1017/S002187580700357X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Thomas Brothers, Louis Armstrong's New Orleans (London: W. W Norton and Co., 2006, £17.99). Pp. 386. isbn 0 393 06109 4.

HELEN TAYLOR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 471-472
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003581 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Eric Cheyfitz, The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, $55.00/£35.00). Pp. 448. isbn 0 231 11764 7.

JAMES FOUNTAIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 472-473
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003593 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

David A. Copeland (general ed.), The Greenwood Library of American War Reporting (Greenwood, CT and London: Greenwood Press, 2005, £566.99). 8 vols. isbn 0 313 33435 8 set.

KATE MCLOUGHLIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 473-474
doi:10.1017/S002187580700360X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Stephen Crane, Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, edited by Adrian Hunter (Guelph, ON: Broadview Press, 2006, £7.99). Pp. 199. isbn 155111 597 2.

CHRISTOPHER GAIR

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 474-475
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003611 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Nicholas De Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space, and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, £14.95). Pp. 352. isbn 0 8223 3615 4.

ALEX GOODALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 475-476
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003623 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, $23.95). Pp. 227. isbn 1 4000 4314 X.

MEGAN RILEY MCGILCHRIST

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 476-477
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003635 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Sara K. Dorow, Transnational Adoption: A Cultural Economy of Race, Gender and Kinship (New York: New York University Press, 2006, $70.00 cloth, $23.00 paper). Pp. 344. isbn 0 8147 1972 4.

HELENA GRICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 477-478
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003647 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Tim Engles and John N. Duvall (eds.), Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise (New York: MLA, 2006, $19.75). Pp. viii+243. isbn 0 8735 29197.

BENJAMIN BIRD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 478-479
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003659 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Nancy Foner (ed.), Wounded City: The Social Impact of 9/11 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, $60.00 hardback, $29.95 paperback). Pp. xiv+374. isbn 0 87154 271 4.

John Mollenkampf (ed.), Contentious City: The Politics of Recovery in New York City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, $50.00 hardback, $29.95 paperback). Pp. xii+233. isbn 0 87154 630 2.

Howard Chernick (ed.), Resilient City: The Economic Impact of 9/11 (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, $60.00 hardback, $29.95 paperback). Pp. xiv+332. isbn 0 87154 170 X.

ERIC HOMBERGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 479-481
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003660 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Kim Geron, Latino Political Power (Boulder and London: Lynn Reiner, 2005, £17.95). Pp. 260. isbn 1 58826 321 5.

ALEX GOODALL

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 481-482
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003672 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio (eds.), Beyond the Black Atlantic: Relocating Modernization and Technology (Abingdon: Routledge and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2006, £19.99). Pp. 210. isbn 0 415 39798 7.

SARAH DAUNCEY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 482-483
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003684 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Jean M. Humez, Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories (Madison and London: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003, $45.00 hardback). Pp. xii+471. isbn 0 299 19120 6, 0 299 19124 9.

GEORGE REHIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 483-484
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003696 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Tsuyoshi Ishihara, Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon (Columbia, MI: University of Missouri Press, 2005, $34.95). Pp. 178. isbn 0 8262 1590 4.

A. ROBERT LEE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 484-484
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003702 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Richard E. Jensen (ed.), Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, £35.95). Pp. 976. isbn 0 8032 39491.

Richard E. Jensen (ed.), Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903–1919 (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2006, £35.95). Pp. 868. isbn 0 8032 3967X.

CHRISTOPHER J. MCKINLAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 485-485
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003714 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Will Kaufman, The Civil War in American Culture (BAAS Paperbacks) (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, £14.00). Pp. xiv+193. isbn 0 7486 1935 6.

SUSAN-MARY GRANT

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 485-486
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003726 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Jeffrey J. Kripal and Glenn W. Shuck (eds.), On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2005, $21.95). Pp. xii+323. isbn 0 253 21759 8.

EMMA LOUISE KILKELLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 486-487
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003738 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Keith D. Leonard, Fettered Genius: The African American Bardic Poet from Slavery to Civil Rights (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2006. $55.00). Pp. ix+256. isbn 0 8139 2505 3.

ANDREW RADFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 487-488
doi:10.1017/S002187580700374X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Paul Lyons, American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination (New York and London: Routledge, 2006, £60.00). Pp. 271. isbn 0 415 35194 4.

JEFFREY GEIGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 488-489
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003751 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Fintan O'Toole, White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2005, $26.00). Pp. 402. isbn 0 374 281289 9.

JOY PORTER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 489-490
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003763 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Rafael Pérez-Torres, Mestizaje: The Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, £14.00 paperback). Pp. 284. isbn 13 978 0 8166 4595 4.

IMELDA MARTIN-JUNQUERA

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 490-491
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003775 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

David Reynolds, From War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, £30.00). Pp. ix+363. isbn 0 19 928411 3.

MARTIN H. FOLLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 491-492
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003787 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Michael F. Robinson, The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006, £25.00 hardcover). Pp. 200. isbn 0 226 721184 1.

TERRY GIFFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 492-493
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003799 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Kermit Roosevelt III, The Myth of Judicial Activism: Making Sense of Supreme Court Decisions (London: Yale University Press, 2006, £16.00). Pp. 261. isbn 13 978 0 300 11468 0.

JOHN MATLIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 493-494
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003805 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Emily S. Rosenberg, A Date Which Will Live (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, $18.95 paperback). Pp. x+236. isbn 0 8223 3637 5.

DANIEL MCKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 494-494
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003817 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Martin Schiesland and Mark M. Dodge (eds.), City of Promise (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006, $18.95 paperback). Pp. 228. isbn 1 930053 42 8.

DANIEL MCKAY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 495-495
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003829 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Joan L. Severa, My Likeness Taken: Daguerreian Portraits in America, 1840–1860 (Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2006, $65.00 cloth). Pp. 303. isbn 0 87338 837 2.

ENCARNA TRINIDAD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 495-496
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003830 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2006, £24.95/$39.95). Pp. x+220. isbn 0 674 01934 2.

GEORGE REHIN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 496-497
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003842 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw, Speaking the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004, £15.50). Pp. xii+195. isbn 0 8223 3396 1.

ALAN RICE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 497-498
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003854 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

James Smalls, The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, $35.00 hardcover). Pp. 198. isbn 1 59213 305 3.

JOHN HOWARD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 498-499
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003866 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Ryan K. Smith, Gothic Arches and Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, $19.95 paperback). Pp. 240. isbn 0 8078 5689 4.

MICHAEL J. COLLINS

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 499-500
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003878 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Peter Stanfield, Body and Soul: Jazz and Blues in American Film, 1927–63 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005, $20.00). Pp. x+213. isbn 0 252 07235 9.

EMMA LOUISE KILKELLY

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 500-501
doi:10.1017/S002187580700388X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Richard Striner, Father Abraham: Lincoln's Relentless Struggle to End Slavery (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, $28.00/£16.99). Pp. 264. isbn 0 19518306 1.

ALAN LOWE

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 501-502
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003891 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Peter Swirski, From Lowbrow to Nobrow (Montreal and Kingston, London, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, $19.95). Pp. 236. Paper: US $22.95, UK £14.99; Cloth: US $75.00, UK £49.00. isbn 0 7735 3019 3.

STEFAN BUCHENBERGER

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 502-503
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003908 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Alan Taylor, Writing Early American History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, $39.95/£26.00). Pp. 256. isbn 0 8122 3883 4.

PETER THOMPSON

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 503-504
doi:10.1017/S002187580700391X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

William E. Van Vugt, British Buckeyes: The English, Scots, and Welsh in Ohio, 1700–1900 (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2006, $55.00). Pp. 303. isbn 0 8733 88437.

MARTIN CRAWFORD

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 504-505
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003921 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Robert E. Wright (ed.), The US National Debt, 1787–1900 (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005, £395.00/$670.00). 4 Vols. Pp. xlv+402, 347, 347, 482. isbn 1 8519 68164.

JOHN KILLICK

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 505-506
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003933 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
 

Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco (eds.) A Companion to the Vietnam War (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006, £24.99 paperback). Pp. xii+514. isbn 1 4051 49833.

RICHARD LOCK-PULLAN

Journal of American Studies, Volume 41, Issue 02, August 2007, pp 507-507
doi:10.1017/S0021875807003945 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 05 Jul 2007
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