1949
		quarterly
		English
		Interdisciplinary
		American Studies Association

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.

» Visit Journal Web Site

December 2009, Volume 61, Number 4

A Note About the Cover
Curtis Marez

Currents

In Memory of Emory Elliott
Katherine Kinney

The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut
Malini Johar Schueller

Essays

An “Orphan” with Two Mothers: Transnational and Transracial Adoption, the Cold War, and Contemporary Asian American Cultural Politics
Jodi Kim

Interlopers in the Realm of High Culture: “Music Moms” and the Performance of Asian and Asian American Identities
Grace Wang

The Ecological Landscapes of Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson
David Kinkela

Book Reviews

The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies
Matthew Pratt Guterl
New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott by George B. Handley
Blackface Cuba, 1840-1895 by Jill Lane
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States by David Luis-Brown
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery by Rebecca J. Scott
Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperalisms, 1898-1976 by Harilaos Stecopoulos

Putting the Market in Its Places
Cotten Seiler
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age by Toby Miller
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture by Lisa Rofel

Youth of Color and the City
Matt Delmont
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 by Andrew Diamond
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II by Luis Alvarez
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Marr Maira
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age by Philip Kasinitz

Against Proper Affective Objects
Rebecca Wanzo
The Female Complaint by Lauren Berlant
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality by Elizabeth Povinelli

Event Review:

Synesthetic Sabor: Translation and Popular Knowledge in American Sabor
Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Other Issues

June 2010, Volume 62, Number 2,
March 2010, Volume 62, Number 1,
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