Founded In    1949
Published   quarterly
Language(s)   English
     

Fields of Interest

 

Interdisciplinary

     
Affiliated Organization   American Studies Association
     
Editorial Board

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

Submission Guidelines and Editorial Policies

Authors should submit their manuscripts (preferably) via email to american.quarterly@usc.edu as attached documents in either Word or Word Perfect formats, or (alternatively) mail three copies to the editor.  Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, so authors’ names should appear on a separate title page or in correspondence only.  Manuscripts should be in the range of 5,000 – 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words total, including footnotes, and conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.  Please note:  we do not require that you format your essay in AQ style before it is accepted for publication, but we do require that submissions be of reasonable length.  Essay submissions over 12,000 words will be returned to authors without being read. Further submission instructions can be found by clicking the “Author Info” link on our website, www.americanquarterly.org

     

American Quarterly

Journal 1

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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December 2007, Volume 59, Number 4

Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker/Activist Va-Megn Thoj


"L'Ouragan de Flammes" ("The Hurricane of Flames"): New Orleans and Transamerican Catastrophe, 1866/2005


"Come Let Us Build a New World Together": SNCC and Photography of the Civil Rights Movement


Reading Nanook's Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)


Public Sites Versus Public Sights: The Progressive Response to Outdoor Advertising and the Commercialization of Public Space


The Ballad of Becks and Posh Event Review


Of Silver and Serotonin: Thinking Through Depression, Inheritance, and Illness Narratives Book Review


Race Worlds: Discrimination, American-Style, in the Middle East Book Review


"zigging and zagging across temporal and textual realms": On Writing Histories about the Philippines in American Studies Book Review


What Winning Looks Like: Critical Environmental Justice Studies and the Future of a Movement Book Review


Are We There Yet? Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies Book Review


Talking Points Memo Book Review


Whispering in a Million Ears: Remembering the Intimate Power of Radio Book Review


Other Issues

June 2008, Volume 60, Number 2
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