Journal of American Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of American Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Rabbi Balfour Brickner, Interreligious Dialogue, and the Ironies of Liberal Zionism in America, 1967‒19802
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Pukey Jocks: BBS Productions’ Drive, He Said (1971) and the Cultural Revolution in Sports1
Ventriloquizing the South: Reading Melville across the Civil War1
NOW I CAN WRITE: THE TENACITY AND ENDURANCE OF WILLIAM FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY1
Black Power, French Existentialism, and the Expansion of Cultural Democracy in the United States after 19451
Sweep the Nation by Song: The Townsend Plan, Old-Age Pensions, and Popular Music1
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Aquinas in Brooklyn: Frank Samperi’s “Objectivist Poetics”1
Kenneth Dauber, The Logic of Sentiment: Stowe, Hawthorne, and Melville (New York: Bloomsbury, 2019, $23.06). Pp. 164. isbn 978 1 5013 5736 7. - Xine Yao, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics 1
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“THE ONE WHO DID NOT DIE”: CAROL J. CLOVER’S MEN, WOMEN, AND CHAIN SAWS AND THE LEGACY OF THE FINAL GIRL1
Sophie White, Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Longing, and Labor in French Louisiana (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019, $32.50 hardback, $29.95 paperback). Pp. 325. 1
Scopes, Specula, the Speculative: Histories of Medical Experimentation and Looking in African American Art and Fiction1
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WHY THE GREAT GATSBY IS THE “GREAT IRISH DIASPORA NOVEL” AND WHY THAT MATTERS IN RACIALLY DIVERSE AMERICA0
RICHARD CORLISS, TALKING PICTURES: SCREENWRITERS IN THE AMERICAN CINEMA0
Kate Marshall, Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023, $26.00). Pp. 232. isbn 978 0 20
A Sinking Ship: William Raborn, Lyndon Johnson, and the CIA0
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Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections since Suffrage (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, £19.00). Pp. 308. isbn 978 1 3169 41330
Angela Esco Elder, Love and Duty: Confederate Widows and the Emotional Politics of Loss (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, $95.00 cloth, $27.95 paper, $21.99 ebook). Pp. 224. 0
STUDS TERKEL'S HARD TIMES: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION0
Kristin Waters, Maria Stewart and the Roots of Black Political Thought (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021, $35.00 paperback, $110.00 hardback). Pp. 338. isbn 978 1 4968 3675 5,0
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Editorial0
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Food, Health and Welfare in the Long Twentieth Century: Introduction0
Concealed Commemoration: American Immigrant Memorials to World War I0
Donald Trump and the Turn to Right-Wing Populism in the Republican Party, 1990–20240
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’0
The Political Uses of Food Protests: Analyzing the 1910 Meat Boycott0
The Lake Mohonk Conferences on International Arbitration (1895–1916): Evoking and Mobilizing an “International Mind”0
The Talk0
MORE THAN A “TRUE MEMOIR”: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’S COLLECTED STORIES0
Chris Molanphy, Old Town Road: A Song by Lil Nas X with Billy Ray Cyrus (London: Duke University Press, 2023, £15.99). Pp. 140. isbn 978 1 4780 2551 1.0
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Hannah L. Huber, Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023, $26.00). Pp. vii + 185. isbn 0
Defying the Demos: Antidemocratic Thought in the United States, 1930–19500
Hanging by a Thread: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Complexities of Memorializing and Mourning Lynching in America0
Blackface Shakespeare: Thomas D. Rice and the Return of Jim Crow as Otello0
Maryanne A. Rhett, Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880–1922 (London: Bloomsbury, 2020, $135.00 cloth, $40.95 paper). Pp. 137. isbn 978 1 3500 7324 1, 978 1 3501 9627 8.0
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“To Use This Word … Would Be Absurd”: How the Brainwashing Label Threatened and Enabled the Troubled-Teen Industry0
“A False Picture of Negro Progress”: John Hope Franklin, Racial Liberalism, and the Political (Mis)uses of Black History during the 1963 Emancipation Centennial0
Christopher Lloyd and Hilary Emmett (eds.), The Affects of Pedagogy in Literary Studies (New York: Routledge, 2023, £104.00). Pp. 238. isbn 978 0 3670
Constructions of Racial Savagery in Early Twentieth-Century US Narratives of White Civilization0
Erin L. Thompson, Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, $25.95). Pp. 288. isbn 978 0 3938 6767 1.0
Edward Sugden (ed.), Crossings in Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Junctures of Time, Space, Self, and Politics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022, $110.00). Pp. 272. isbn 0
Californians and Others: Children's Health, Nutrition, and Welfare in Depression-Era Migrant Camps0
Moderate Southern Senators, Hunger, and Welfare in the Long 1960s0
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Eric Weisbard, Hound Dog (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, £16.00). Pp. 144. isbn 978 1 4780 2508 5.0
Gold Standard0
Eat Your Way to Health: A History of Ability in the Progressive Era0
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David Bordwell, Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023, $32.00). Pp. 491. isbn 978 0 2312 0659 4.0
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Reading America, Reading Rodriguez: Exploring American Literature at an English Prison Book Group0
BLACK RECONSTRUCTION IN AMERICA: REFLECTION0
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The “Open Sore of America”: Race and the American Congo Reform Movement, 1885–19080
Coloring outside the Lines: Antiracist Aesthetics in the Detective Novels of Chester Himes0
Gothing the Blues: The Afrogothic, the Afrosurreal and Transcending the Blue Devils in the work of Jean Toomer and Bob Kaufman0
Michella M. Marino, Roller Derby: The History of an American Sport (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021, $35.00). Pp. 296. isbn 978 1 4773 2382 3.0
“How Many Black Hippies Do You See?” The Counterculture in Black and White0
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Rhizomatic Organizing, Collective Leadership, and Community-Centered Pedagogy in the Early Asian American Movement0
“Probably the Most Perfect Symbol of Our Democracy”: The Army, Sports, and the Re-education of German Youth during the Early American Occupation of Germany, 1945–19460
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The White Fraud: White Elephants, Siam, and Comparative Racialization0
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Roberto Clemente on the Black/Brown Color Line0
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Mary M. Burke, Race, Politics, and Irish America: A Gothic History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, £27.49). Pp. 272. isbn 978 0 1928 5973 00
The Trouble with Sumner Welles: Sexuality, Race, and the Limits of Mythmaking in Queer History0
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The Oppens: Disability, Disease, and the Authorship of Late Work0
Matthew Dennis, American Relics and the Politics of Public Memory (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2023, $32.95). Pp. 436. isbn 978 1 6253 4711 4.0
Kevin Fellezs, Listen but Don't Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar across the Transpacific (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019, $28.95). Pp. 336. isbn 978 1 4780 0671 8. - Stephan0
Manan Desai, The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2020, $34.33/£30.00). Pp. 264. isbn 978 1 4399 1890 6.0
“Racial Discrimination Can in No Way Be Justified”: The Vatican and Desegregation in the South, 1946–19680
The Latin American Bullring: US Evangelicals and the Reception of Anti-Protestant Violence from Cold War Colombia0
Esther Wright, Rockstar Games and American History: Promotional Materials and the Construction of Authenticity (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, $21.99 paper, $102.00 hardback, $102.00 0
Generative AI and the Nationalization of US Politics0
Justin D. Edwards, Rune Graulund, and Johan Höglund (eds.), Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022, $29.95). Pp. 372. isbn0
Irena Księżopolska and Mikołaj Wiśniewski (eds.), Vladimir Nabokov and the Fictions of Memory (Warsaw: Fundacja Augusta hr. Cieszkowskiego, 2019, £22.99). Pp. 350. isbn 978 8 3657 8712 5.0
The Ethno-economy: Peter Brimelow and the Capitalism of the Far Right0
Nicole Erin Morse, Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2022, $99.95 cloth, $25.95 paper, $25.95ebook). Pp. 2000
Laurence Jackson Hyman (ed.) in consultation with Bernice M. Murphy, The Letters of Shirley Jackson (New York: Random House, 2021, $35.00). Pp. 672. isbn 05139 34641.0
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Fit Nation: The Gains and Pains of America's Exercise Obsession (Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2022, $29.00 cloth, $28.99 ebook). Pp. 443. isbn0
“A Position Which my Gayness Itself Leads Me to Take”: Sexual-Minority Antiabortion Activists0
Orientalism, Liberal Empire, and the 2003 Iraq War0
Julia Havas, Woman Up: Invoking Feminism in Quality Television (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2022, $34.99). Pp. 282. ISBN 978 0 8143 4656 3.0
Stuart Burrows, Henry James and the Promise of Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, £85.00). Pp. 217. isbn 978 1 0094 1968 0.0
On Activist Mothers and Gentrifying Lovers: From the Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement to the Model-Minority Myth in the Caribbean Romance Novel0
Kathryn Schumaker, Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s (New York: New York University Press, 2020, $45.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4798 7513 9.0
JUST IN TIME: PERCIVAL EVERETT’S ERASURE0
ON ASKING QUESTIONS OF OUR OWN: THE LEGACY OF AMY KAPLAN0
Chair's Address, BAAS 20220
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Cartographic Transcendence: Mapping the Process of Mourning in Great War Tourism Guidebooks0
Are Racial and Ethnic Minority Voters Abandoning the Democrats?0
David Johnson Lee, The Ends of Modernization: Nicaragua and the United States in the Cold War Era (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2021, $54.95/£45.18). Pp. 188. isbn 978 10
The Anarchy of Children's Archives: Citizenship and Empire in the Global 1930s0
Sepoys, Slavery and the Global Colour Line: The Indian Uprising of 1857 in Southern US Newspapers0
Ellen Craft's “Spanish” Masquerade: Racially (Mis)Reading Hispanicism in Her Cross-Dressing, Feigning Disability, and Running to Sea0
“An Itchin ’Roun the Heart You Can't Get at to Scratch”: Exploring the Emotion of Love in Black Enslaved Communities of the Nineteenth Century0
Second Coming: Donald Trump’s Reelection and Its Consequences0
William L. Andrews, Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, $42.95). Pp. 389. isbn 978 0 19090
Toward a Strategy for More Spatial Control: The Politics of MLK Street (Re)naming0
DISCOVERING THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM BY NELSON ALGREN0
Fitness as Political Practice in Modern History0
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Trent Masiki, Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023, $32.95). Pp. 237. isbn 0
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“The Best Place to Help the Panthers Is at Home”: Dutch Black Panther Solidarity in Pursuit of a Revolution0
(Not) Fighting “Flesh of Our Flesh”: Italian American Mobilization Discourse in the Second World War0
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Jessica R. Feldman, Saul Steinberg's Literary Journeys: Nabokov, Joyce, and Others (Charlottesville and London: Virginia University Press, 2021, $39.95). Pp. 322. isbn 978 0 8139 4511 8.0
Cross-dressing as Familial Care: Revising Gender in “Theresa” and “Lucy Nelson”0
Women’s Work in the Dystopian West: “The Colonies” in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale0
Diletta de Cristofaro, The Contemporary Post-apocalyptic Novel: Critical Temporalities and the End Times (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, £29.99 paper, £100.00 cloth). Pp. 195. isbn 978 0
From State Warfare to State Welfare: Family Values in Leonard Freed'sPolice Work(1980)0
BECOMING MY OWN AUTHORITY0
Brooke Blower, Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, £26.99/$34.95). Pp. 529. isbn 978 0 10
Editors’ Introduction0
FAULKNER’S FRANCE, FRANCE’S FAULKNER: ANDRÉ BLEIKASTEN’S THE INK OF MELANCHOLY AND EUROPEAN FAULKNER SCHOLARSHIP0
The President Has Been Shot: Political Assassinations in Popular Culture0
ESSENTIAL ESSAYS, VOLUME I BY STUART HALL0
Ira Nadel, Philip Roth: A Counterlife (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 568. isbn 978 0 1998 4610 8.0
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THE APOTHEOSIS OF ABSALOM, ABSALOM!0
Lauren S. Cardon, Fashioning Character: Style, Performance, and Identity in Contemporary American Literature (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2021, $49.50). Pp. 302. isb0
APG ROUNDTABLE: SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVES ON THE AMERICAN RIGHT0
FAILURE AS CONSTRUCTION: ELIZABETH MCHENRY’S TO MAKE NEGRO LITERATURE0
Carly Thomsen, Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life and the Politics of Unbecoming (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, $25.00), Pp. 264. isbn 978 1 5179 1064 8. - Anna Lv0
Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives – ERRATUM0
The Showmen's Culture: Life, Labor, and Negotiated Loyalty among Traveling Entertainment Workers in the Gilded Age0
Lisa Vox, Existential Threats: American Apocalyptic Beliefs in the Technological Era (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017, Hardcover and eBook: $64.95). Pp. ix + 288. Hardcover 0
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Simon P. Newman, Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London (London: University of London Press, 2022, £12.00). Pp. 250. isbn 978 1 9127 0293 0.0
Alexander Laban Hinton, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US (New York: New York University Press, 2021, $19.95). Pp. 233. isbn 978 1 4798 0803 8.0
Writing the History of Pandemics in the Age of COVID-190
Dawn Durante and Nancy A. Hewitt, 100 Years of Women's Suffrage: A University of Illinois Press Anthology (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, $26.00 paper, $14.95 ebook). Pp. 257. isbn0
Ralph Rodríguez, Latinx Literature Unbound: Undoing Ethnic Expectation (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018, $32.99). Pp. 200. isbn 978 0 8232 7924 1. - José Esteban Muñoz, The Sense o0
Sub-Urban or Post-Rural: Suburban Development as a Two-Way Street in the Mid-Twentieth Century0
INTRODUCING THE JAS BOOKSHELF0
Doom Town, Nevada Test Site, and the Popular Imagination of Atomic Disaster0
John Ernest (ed.), Race in American Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, $39.99). Pp. 452. isbn 978 1 1084 8739 9.0
Martin Dines, The Literature of Suburban Change (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, £85.00). Pp. 288. isbn 978 1 4744 2648 0.0
Gossip on Main Street: Visualizing Oral Exchange in Mid-Twentieth-Century Small-Town Photography and Art0
Emilie Boone, A Nimble Arc: James Van Der Zee and Photography (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023, $104.95 hardcover; $27.95 paper). Pp. ix + 288. Hardcover isbn 0
Picturing Bad Refugees: Haiti, Vietnam, and the Racial Politics of Refugee Photography0
Benjamin Holtzman, The Long Crisis: New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021, £22.99). Pp. 336. isbn 978 0 1908 4370 0. - Andrew J. Diamond and T0
Wages, Work, and the Industrial Past in Three Contemporary Labor Market Narratives0
Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit and Periodical Readerships0
From Austerity to Disentitlement: The Transformation of Food Stamps in the US, 1969–19840
Modernists and Muslims: E. J. Pace and His Islam-Inspired Cartoons0
Better Intoned Than Read: Sound and Matter in God's Trombones0
KEISHA N. BLAIN'S UNTIL I AM FREE: FANNIE LOU HAMER'S ENDURING MESSAGE TO AMERICA0
BLACK REPARATIONS ROUNDTABLE0
Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien, eds., Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, $28.00). Pp. 322. isbn 970
Rainbow Serpents and Boiling Springs: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Fight for Groundwater in the United States and Australia0
Suzanne Bost, Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir & Ethical Alternatives to Humanism (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019, $25.00). Pp. 147. isbn 978 0 252 08462 1. - Laura E. Pérez, Er0
Exchange: A Signature Pedagogy for American Studies in the UK0
Poverty, by America Roundtable0
Robert F. Zeidel, Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization (Ithaca, NY and London: Northern Illinois University Press, 2020, $49.95). P0
Constructing Age in Black and White: Race and Middle Age in the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Gertrude Elise McDougald Ayer0
Sarah J. Purcell, Spectacle of Grief: Public Funerals and Memory in the Civil War Era (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022, $95.00 cloth, $34.95 paper, $26.99 ebook). Pp. 352. i0
Greg Barnhisel, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, $55.00/£44.00). Pp 336. isbn 978 0 2311 6230 2. - Bryn Upto0
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