Books for Review

Books for Review [the minnesota review welcomes proposals for reviews of the following books, as well as other more recent titles, particularly that bear on upcoming special issues. I would like to encourage reviews that are short on summary and blurb-like commentary, and long on analysis and taking the texts in questions as symptoms of the present socio-scene of the study of literature and culture. For instance, rather than a review of one book of "autobiographical criticism," one might consider the trend toward personal writing in terms of the fallout from high theory, the return to literature, the construction of academic celebrity, or contemporary job formations ("winner-take-all" jobs) and the ideology of individualism . I would especially like to solicit reviews that consider alternative material—such as special issues of or significant changes in journals , notable conferences, films and video, fashion, as well as commercial publishing trends—that sometimes expose what's going on more directly than notices of specific critical books. If you are interested in proposing a review, you should look over the reviews in this and other recent issues for style and focus.—Jeffrey Williams, Ed.] Allen, Theodore. The Invention ofthe White Race, Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control. London: Verso, 1994. Almaguer, Thomas. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: U of California P, 1994. Amott, Teresa L., and Julie A. Matthaei. Race, Gender & Work. Boston: South End, 1991. Appiah, KwameAnthony, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., eds. Identities. Chicago : U of Chicago P, 1995. Attwell, David. /. M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing. Berkeley : U of California P, 1993. Baker, Houston A. Jr., Manthia Diawara, and Ruth H. Lindeborg, eds. Black British Cultural Studies: A Reader. Chicago: U ofChicago P, 1996. Baker, Nancy L., and Nancy Huling. A Research Guidefor Undergraduate Students: English and American Literature. New York: MLA, 1995. Barker, Francis, Peter Hume, and Margaret Iverson, eds. Colonial Discourse /Postcolonial Theory. Manchester: Mancester UP, 1994. Bayles, Martha. Holein Our Soul: The Loss ofBeautyandMeaning in American Popular Music. New York: Free Press, 1994. Bell-Villada, Gene H. Artfor Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1 7901990 . Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1996. Benjamin, Walter. Selected Writings. Volumel: 1913-1926. Ed. Marcus Bullock and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1996. Berger, Arthur Asa. Cultural Criticism: A Primer ofKey Subjects. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995. Berlin, James A. Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies. Urbana: NCTE, 1996. 250the minnesota review Bersani, Leo, ed. Homos. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1995. Black Public Sphere Collective. The Black Public Sphere. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995. Brodsky, Joseph. So Forth. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996. Conner, Steven. The English Novel in History: 1950-1990. New York: Routledge, 19%. Crenshaw, Kimberlé, et. al eds. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Shaped the Movement. New York: New Press, 1995. Daniel, E. Valentine, and Jeffrey M. Peck, eds. Culture/Contexture: Explorations in Anthropology and Literary Studies. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996. Davis, James F. Who is Black? One Nation's Definition. University Park: Penn State UP, 1991. Debray, Régis. Media Manifestos. Trans. Eric Rauth. New York: Verso, 1996. Domínguez, Virginia R. White By Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1994 [1986]. Feagin, Joe R., and Hernán Vera. White Racism. New York: Routledge, 1995. Fowles, Jib. Advertising and Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996. Fowlkes, Diane. White Political Women: Paths From Privilege to Empowerment . Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1992. Frankenberg, Ruth. White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1993. Funderburg, Lise. Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity. New York: William Morrow, 1995. Gass, William H., and Lorin Cuoco, eds. The Writer in Politics. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. Giroux, Henry A. Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, & Youth. New York: Routledge, 1996. Goldberg, David Theo, ed. Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994. Gray, Herman. Watching Race: Television and the Strugglefor "Blackness. " Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995. Green, Martin. The Adventurous Male: Chapters in the History ofthe White Male...