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March 2006
American Quarterly: March 2006, Volume 58, Number 1

This issue contains an essay on the “Valium Panic” and feminism in the 1970s; a reflection on the diminished role of film American studies scholarship; a piece dealing with the impact of photography on Chinese immigration; as well as other essays, exhibition reviews, and book reviews.

June 2009, Volume 61
American Quarterly: Number 2

Essays

“Circular” Reasoning: Recentering Cherokee Women in the Antiremoval Campaigns
Tiya Miles

“Blacks in all Quarters of the Globe”: Anti-Imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins’s Literary Journalism
Colleen C. O’Brien

“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”: Beloved, the American Chain Gang, and the Middle Passage Remix
Dennis Childs

Black Children, White Preference: Brown v. Board, the Doll Tests, and the Politics of Self-Esteem
Gwen Bergner

The Game Theory Narrative and the Myth of the National Security State
Steven Belletto

Picture Revolution: Transnationalism, American Studies, and the Politics of Contemporary Native Culture
Shari M. Huhndorf

Book Reviews

Old Settlers, New Negroes, and the Birth of Modernity in Black Chicago
Beryl Satter
Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life by Davarian Baldwin
Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 by Adam Green

What Happens If You Put American Disability Studies at the Center?
Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
Writing Deafness: The Hearing Line in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Christopher Krentz
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability by Robert McRuer
Cultural Locations of Disability by Sharon Snyder and David Mitchell

Hail to the Chief and to the Thief: Fantasies, Fictions, and Fears about the United States Presidency
Gregory P. Downs
Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People by Dana D. Nelson
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online by Jeff Smith
Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World edited by Eric Foner
This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary by Diane Rubenstein
Apocalypse Management: Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity by Ira Chernus

The Deported
Rachel Ida Buff
Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History by Daniel Kanstroom
Deporting Our Souls: Values, Morality and Immigration Policy by Bill Ong Hing