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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
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

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 2008, Volume 60, Number 2

Counterinsurgency and Torture

By Thomas A. Bass

FORUM: NATIVE FEMINISMS WITHOUT APOLOGY

From White into Red: Captivity Narratives as Alchemies of Race and Citizenship

By Audra Simpson

Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: Native Women’s Activism against Social Inequality and Violence in Canad

By Joanne Barker

Felt Theory

By Dian Million

Strategies of Erasure: U.S. Colonialism and Native Hawaiian Feminism

By Lisa Kahaleole Hall

Native Hawaiian Decolonization and the Politics of Gender

By J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Carving Navajo National Boundaries: Patriotism, Tradition, and the Diné Marriage Act of 2005

By Jennifer Denetdale

(Re)Mapping Indigenous Presence on the Land in Native Women’s Literature

By Mishuana Goeman

Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms

By Renya K. Ramirez

American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State

By Andrea Smith

ESSAYS

Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire

By Sunaina Maira

Cold War Re-Visions: Representation and Resistance in the Unseen Salt of the Earth

By Benjamin Balthaser

The Clearly Obscene and the Queerly Obscene: Heteronormativity and Obscenity in Cold War Los Angeles

By Whitney Strub

Charting Progress: Francis Amasa Walker’s Statistical Atlas of the United States and Narratives of W

By Thomas P. Kinnahan

EVENT REVIEW

Outside Art: Exhibiting Snapshot Photography

By Catherine Zuromskis

BOOK REVIEWS

We Are What We Teach: American Studies in the K-16 Classroom

By Adam Golub

Slavery, Past and Present

By Edlie Wong

The State of Prison

By Jason Haslam

Orientalizing American Studies

By Malini Johar Schueller

Toward a “Subjectless” Discourse: Engaging Transnationalist and Postcolonial Approaches in Asian Ame

By Nhi Lieu

Other Issues

June 2010, Volume 62, Number 2,
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
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