Books For Review

If you are interested in reviewing a book for the journal, or you are interested in reviewing a book that would be of interest to our readers but is not on the list below, please contact the Reviews Editor, Keira Williams.

The following books are currently available for review:

Abel, Sarah. Permanent Markers: Race, Ancestry, and the Body After the Genome. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Adjetey, Wendell Nii Laryea. Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Amenta, Edwin and Neal Caren. Rough Draft of History: A Century of US Social Movements in the News. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Bailey, Beth. An Army Afire: How the U.S. Army Confronted Its Racial Crisis in the Vietnam Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Balmer, Randalll. Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Bay, Mia. Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance. Harvard University Press, 2023.

Brady, Mary Pat. Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child. Duke University Press, 2022.

Brooks, Daphne A. Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound. Harvard University Press, 2023.

Burgess, Jean and Nancy K. Baum. Twitter: A Biography. New York University Press, 2022.

Calonne, David Stephen. The Beats in Mexico. Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Cline, David P. Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Curwood, Anastasia C. Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Elmore, Bart. Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and Planet. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Fama, Katherine and Jorie Lagerwey, eds. Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film. Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Farrell, Elaine and Leanne McCormick. Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem, and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women. Penguin, 2023.

Giunta, Edvige and Mary Anne Trasciatti, eds. Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. New York University Press, 2022.

Goodman, Carly. Dreamland: America’s Immigration Lottery in the Age of Restriction. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Green, Tara T. Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Bloomsbury, 2022.

Grego, Caroline. Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Guarino, Mark. Country and Midwestern: Chicago in the History of Country Music and the Folk Revival. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Hassler-Forest, Dan. Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label. Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Hochman, Brian. The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. Harvard University Press, 2022.

Hubbart, Philip A. From Death Row to Freedom: The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case. University Press of Florida, 2023.

Hudson, Berkley. O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. Before Equiano: A Prehistory of the North American Slave Narrative. University of North Carolina Press, 2022.

Jarrett, Gene Andrew. Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird. Princeton University Press, 2022.

Jarvis, Michael J. Isle of Devil, Isle of Saints: An Atlantic History of Bermuda, 1609-1684. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

Jortner, Adam. No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian American. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

La Barca, Giuseppe. International Trade Under President Reagan: U.S. Trade Policy in the 1980s. Bloomsbury, 2023.

Lombardo, Paul A. Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.

Maeda, Daryl Joji. Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee. New York University Press, 2022.

Mazzeno, Laurence W. and Sue Norton. Contemporary American Fiction in the European Classroom: Teaching and Texts. Palgrave, 2022.

Murphy, Bernice M. The California Gothic in Fiction and Film. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Neal, Mark Anthony. Black Ephemera: The Crisis and Challenge of the Musical Archive. New York University Press, 2022.

Olivarius, Kathryn. Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom. Harvard University Press, 2022.

Pais, Christian O. The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-and-File History of the UFW Movement. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

Rosas, Gilberto. Unsettling: The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the U.S.-Mexico Border. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

Ross, Kelly. Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Rudra, Geetika. Here to Stay: Uncovering South Asian American History. Rutgers University Press, 2022.

Taft, Maggie. The Chieftain and the Chair: The Rise of Danish Design in Postwar America. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Tracy, Tony. White Cottage, White House: Irish American Masculinities in Classical Hollywood Cinema. SUNY Press, 2023.

Williams, Chad L. The Wounded World: W.E.B. DuBois and the First World War. MacMillan, 2023.

Wosh, Peter J. and Patricia L. Schall. Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey. Rutgers University Press, 2022.