Recommended Texts for Review

The editors will consider any proposals for reviews of recent (released within the last three years) books, periodicals, film, exhibitions, or other media that might be of interest to Americanist scholars. Please send all proposals to americanistjournal@gmail.com. Below is a list of suggested titles for potential reviewers to consider:

“Amerikastudien: Volume 66 (2021), Common Grounds? American Democracy after Trump. Cedric Essi, Heike Paul, and Boris Vormann (Guest Editors).”  https://amst.winter-verlag.de/issue/AMST/2021/1.
 
Bench, Harmony. 2020. Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures, and the Common. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Blanck, Dag, and Adam Hjorthén, eds. 2021. Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Breslow, Jacob. 2021. Ambivalent Childhoods: Speculative Futures and the Psychic Life of the Child. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Briggs, Laura. 2020. Taking Children: A History of American Terror.  Oakland, California: University of California Press.
 
Coit, Emily. 2021. American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel Tradition. Edinburgh University Press.
 
Farmer, Meredith, and Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, eds. 2022. Ahab Unbound: Melville and the Materialist Turn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Ferguson, Jeffrey B. 2021. Race and the Rhetoric of Resistance. Edited by Werner Sollors. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
 
Givens, Jarvis R. 2021. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Griffith, Aaron. 2020. God’s Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Han, Byung-Chul. 2020. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present. Translated by Daniel Steuer. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA: Polity.
 
Hefner, Brooks E. 2021. Black Pulp: Genre Fiction in the Shadow of Jim Crow. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
 
Hjorth, Larissa, and Ingrid Richardson. 2020. Ambient Play. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
 
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Komarnisky, Sara V. 2018. Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and Transnational Life. Illustrated edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
 
Lew-Williams, Beth. 2018. The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America. 1st Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Liu, Michael. 2020. Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston’s Chinatown, 1880-2018. First edition. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
 
L’Official, Peter. 2020. Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
McCammack, Brian. 2017. Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Mechling, Jay. 2021. Soldier Snapshots: Masculinity, Play, and Friendship in the Everyday Photographs of Men in the American Military. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
 
Ransby, Barbara. 2018. Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
 
Redman, Samuel J. 2021. Prophets and Ghosts: The Story of Salvage Anthropology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Smith, David Livingstone. 2021. Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
 
Stallings, L. H. 2019. A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
 
Streeby, Shelley. 2018. Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
 
Sullivan, Patricia. 2021. Justice Rising: Robert Kennedy’s America in Black and White. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.
 
Sze, Julie. 2020. Environmental Justice in a Moment of Danger. Oakland, California: University of California Press.
 
Viator, Felicia Angeja. 2020. To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.