American Quarterly
Volume 60, Number 4, December 2008
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Why American Studies Needs to Think about Korean Cinema, or, Transnational Genres in the Films of Bong Joon-ho
pp. 871-898
To Be(come) Young, Gay, and Black: Lorraine Hansberry’s Existentialist Routes to Anticolonialism
pp. 899-924
The Anti-Chain Store Movement and the Politics of Consumption
pp. 925-949
Germany Gets the Blues: Negotiations of “Race” and Nation at the American Folk Blues Festival
pp. 951-974
A “Revolution in Ink”: Sui Sin Far and Chinese Reform Discourse
pp. 975-1001
“What Are the Advantages of the Acquisition?”: Inventing Expansion in the Early American Republic
pp. 1003-1035
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Musical Miscegenation and the Logic of Rock and Roll: Homosocial Desire and Racial Productivity in “A Paler Shade of White”
pp. 1037-1055
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement
pp. 1057-1072
Book Reviews
Why Maps Matter: New Geographies of Early American Culture
pp. 1073-1087
Reconsidering Violence: Warfare, Terror, and Colonialism in the Making of the United States
pp. 1089-1097
Motive Powers: Transportation and Culture in the United States
pp. 1113-1124
Getting Personal and Getting Personnel: U.S. Capitalism as a System of Emotional Reproduction
pp. 1135-1142
Exhibitionary Complexity: Reconsidering Museums’ Cultural Authority
pp. 1143-1151
Contributors
Index
Index to American Quarterly Volume 60 March 2008 to December 2008
pp. 1157-1160
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