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  • Review Index
Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography. By Randal Maurice Jelks. Reviewed by Celucien L. Joseph. 121
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America. By Victoria W. Wolcott. Reviewed by Llana Barber. 123
Retirement on the Line: Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory. By Caitrin Lynch. Reviewed by Jeffrey A. Johnson. 124
Atlanta Unbound: Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning. By Carlton Wade Basmajian. Reviewed by Amanda Rees. 125
Empire of Vines: Wine Culture in America. By Erica Hannickel. Reviewed by Peter Catapano. 126
Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom. By Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger. Reviewed by Charles Francis Williams. 128
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music. By Alexdandra T. Vazquez. Reviewed by David F. Garcia. 129
Merle Haggard: The Running Kind. By David Cantwell. Reviewed by Mark Hulsether. 130
Model Immigrants and Undesirable Aliens: The Cost of Immigration Reform in the 1990s. By Christina Gerken. Reviewed by Llana Barber. 131
Proof of Guilt: Barbara Graham and the Politics of Executing Women in America. By Kathleen A. Cairns. Reviewed by Courtney D. Marshall. 132
Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology and the Ethics of Personhood. By Christina Bieber Lake. Reviewed by Aristi Trendel. 133
Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans. By Matt Sakakeeny, with artwork by Willie Birch. Reviewed by Bruce Boyd Raeburn. 135
Sex, or the Unbearable. By Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman. Reviewed by Fiona I. B. Ngô. 136
Soccer Culture in America: Essays on the World’s Sport in Red, White and Blue. Edited by Yuya Kiuchi. Reviewed by Robert G. Rodriguez. 137
Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement in Los Angeles. By Gaye Theresa Johnson. Reviewed by Maurice Rafael Magaña. 138 [End Page 119]
Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination. By Nicole Seymour. Reviewed by Sarah Ensor. 139
’Till Faith Do Us Part: How Interfaith Marriage is Transforming America. By Naomi Schaefer Riley. Reviewed by Jared Griffin. 141
Tough on Hate?: The Cultural Politics of Hate Crimes. By Clara S. Lewis. Reviewed by Rebecca Barrett-Fox. 142
Abortion in the American Imagination: Before Life and Choice, 1880–1940. By Karen Weingarten. Reviewed by Jill E. Anderson. 143
Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State. Edited by Amanda B. Carlson and Robin Poynor. Reviewed by Hilary Jones. 145
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture. By Vincent Woodard. Reviewed by Christopher Lloyd. 146
Educated in Whiteness: Good Intentions and Diversity in Schools. By Angelina E. Castagno. Reviewed by John R. Rury. 147
Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. Edited by Doran Larson. Reviewed by Anthony Santoro. 148
The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness. By Angie Maxwell. Reviewed by Gwyneth Mellinger. 150
NFL Football: A History of America’s New National Pastime. By Richard C. Crepeau. Reviewed by Dawson Barrett. 152
Philip Roth and World Literature: Transatlantic Perspectives and Uneasy Passages. Edited by Velichka D. Ivanova. Reviewed by Frank A. Salamone. 153
Robert Cantwell and the Literary Left: A Northwest Writer Reworks American Fiction. By T.V. Reed. Reviewed by Joel Wendland. 154
Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance. By Mark Rifkin. Reviewed by Andrea Smith. 155
Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. By Thomas A. Foster. Reviewed by Ross Pudaloff. 157

Editorial note: Book reviews are edited for typographical errors, and otherwise are printed as received. [End Page 120]

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