American Quarterly
Volume 61, Number 1, March 2009
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E-ISSN: 1080-6490 Print ISSN: 0003-0678
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Your Subscribed ContentASA Presidential Address
Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to an American Studies Future
pp. 1-25
Disciplining American Studies?: A Response to the Presidential Address
pp. 27-32
Beyond Broadway and Main: A Response to the Presidential Address
pp. 33-38
Essays
The Ruse of Engagement: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing
pp. 39-63
"You Should Give them Blacks to Eat": Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror
pp. 65-92
"Our Battle Cry Will Be: Remember Jenny McCrea!": A Précis on the Rhetoric of Revenge
pp. 93-112
Domesticating the Aliens Within: Sentimental Benevolence in Late-Nineteenth-Century California Magazines
pp. 113-136
Book Reviews
Playing with Children: What the "Child" Is Doing in American Studies
pp. 151-161
After the Welfare State: The New Marxism and Other Rough Beasts
pp. 173-184
Event Reviews
A Special Place within the Order of Knowledge: The Art of Kara Walker and the Conventions of African American History
pp. 185-192
Entropic Designs: A Review of Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes and Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970 at the de Young Museum
pp. 193-215