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American Quarterly Editors Editor: Curtis Marez, University of Southern California Associate Editor: Avery Gordon, University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor: Katherine Kinney, University of California, Riverside Associate Editor: James Kyung Jin Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara Associate Editor: Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego Book Review Editor: Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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American Quarterly

Founded in 1949, American Quarterly is the journal of the American Studies Association. American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American studies.  The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts.  This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture.  Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American studies. American Quarterly is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December.  It is available online to ASA members and through Project Muse and JSTOR.

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June 2010, Volume 62, Number 2,

ASA Presidential Address and Responses
Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race
Kevin Gaines

An American Studies Meant for Interruption
Roderick A. Ferguson

A Virtual Muslim Is Something to Be
Melani McAlister

Currents
The Ballot Box and Beyond: The (Im)Possibilities of White Antiracist Organizing
Jeb Aram Middlebrook

Essays
“You trade in a man for the man”: Domestic Violence and the U.S. Welfare State
Priya Kandaswamy

All in the Family? Asian American Designers and the Boundaries of Creative Labor
Thuy Linh Tu

Locating the Mississippi: Landscape, Nature, and National Territoriality at the Mississippi Headwaters
Rich Heyman

Book Reviews
Americanists at Work and at Play
Matthew Frye Jacobson
A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

Purloined Letters and Prehistories of Graphic Design
Michael J. Golec
Engraving the Savage: The New World and Techniques of Civilization by Michael Gaudio
States of Inquiry: Social Investigations and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States by Oz Frankel

Sex and Sociability
Tavia Nyong’o
Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern by Jayna Brown
James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile by Magdalena J. Zaborowska
The Scene of Harlem Cabaret: Race, Sexuality, Performance by Shane Vogel

A Recipe for Food Studies
David A. Davis
Savage Barbecue: Race, Culture, and the Invention of America’s First Food by Andrew Warnes
Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from Africa to America by Frederick Douglass Opie
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
African American Foodways: Explorations of History and Culture edited by Anne L. Bower

You, Me, and Joe McCarthy: The Enduring Legacy of the Cold War
Wendy Gonaver
Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California’s Loyalty Oath by Bob Blauner
The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism by Michael Kimmage
Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War by Arthur Redding

Contradictions in Indian Art: Contemporary Native American Arts and the National Museum of the American Indian
Ned Blackhawk
The National Museum of the American Indian: Critical Conversations edited by Amy Lonetree and Amanda J. Cobb
Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian edited by Lowery Stokes Sims, Truman T. Lowe, and Paul Chaat Smith
George De Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings edited by Nancy K. Anderson

Event Review
Whither the Wrestlers
Ilene Susan Fort

Other Issues

March 2010, Volume 62, Number 1,
December 2009, Volume 61, Number 4
September 2009, Special Issue, In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, Volume 61, Number 3,
June 2009, Volume 61, Number 2
March 2009, Volume 61, Number 1
December 2008, Volume 60, Number 4
June 2008, Volume 60, Number 2
December 2007, Volume 59, Number 4
Religion and Politics in the Contemporary United States, Volume 59, Number 3
Legal Borderlands: Law and the Construction of American Borders , Vol. 57, No. 3
Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,
March 2006, Volume 58, Number 1