- 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]