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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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March 2009, Volume 61, Number 1

ASA Presidential Address

Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to an American Studies Future
Philip J. Deloria

Disciplining American Studies?: A Response to the Presidential Address
Nikhil Pal Singh

Beyond Broadway and Main: A Response to Phil Deloria
Judith Halberstam

Essays

The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing
Jared Sexton

“You Should Give them Blacks to Eat:” Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror
Sara E. Johnson

“Our Battle Cry Will Be: Remember Jenny McCrea!” A Précis on the Rhetoric of Revenge
Jeremy Engels and Greg Goodale

Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late Nineteenth-Century California Magazines
Yu-Fang Cho

Book Reviews

The Invisible Fence
Dana D. Nelson
Taming Democracy: “The People,” the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution, by Terry Bouton
For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s, by Ronald P. Formisano
Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, by Woody Holton

Playing With Children: What the “Child” is Doing in American Studies
Maude Hines
Children at Play: An American History, by Howard P. Chudacoff.
Cradle of Liberty: Race the Child and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W.E. B. Du Bois, by Caroline Levander.
Dependent States: The Child’s Part in Nineteenth-Century American Culture, by Karen Sánchez-Eppler

Seeing Religion Happen in the Other America
Matthew S. Hedstrom
How the Other Half Worships, by Camilo José Vergara.
Bible Road: Signs of Faith in the American Landscape, by Sam Fentress and Paul Elie

After the Welfare State: The New Marxism and Other Rough Beasts
Michael Tavel Clarke
Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature, by Eric Schocket
Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State, by Bruce Robbins
American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840-1945, by Gavin Jones
New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America, edited by Jane Collins, Micaela di Leonardo, and Brett Williams

Event Reviews

A Special Place Within the Order of Knowledge: The Art of Kara Walker and the Conventions of African American History
Roderick A. Ferguson

Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970 at the de Young Museum
Susette Min

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
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

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