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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 2009, Volume 61, 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

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,
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