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 Editors, Laëtitia Nebot-Deneuville and Abigail Morton-Wilcox.

The following books are currently available for review:

Karen Frances McCarthy. The Re-Enchanted Ghost in Contemporary American Fiction. Routledge, 2026.

Maya L. Kornberg. Stuck: How Money, Media, and Violence Prevent Change in Congress. John Hopkins University Press, 2026.

Keith Newlin. The Dreiser-Markham Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and Kyra Markham, 1913-1944. Winchester University Press, 2026.

Patrick J. Mahoney. The Fenian Empire: A Hemispheric History of Irish Republican Nationalism. NYU Press, 2026.

William D. James and Greg Kennedy. Transatlantic Storms in Anglo-American Relations. Georgetown University Press, 2026.

Allen Jr., Sylvester and Belle Boggs. The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Barber, Tiffany E. Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of RepresentationNew York University Press, 2025.

Benjamin, Karen. Good Parents, Better Homes and Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New DealUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Berger, Martin A. Inventing Stereotype: Race, Representation, and Interwar AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 2025.

Clark, Tom S.; Adam N. Glynn; and Michael Leo Owens. Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban AmericaPrinceton University Press, 2025.

Davis, Shardé M., ed. Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher EducationUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Doolan, Yuri W. The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to AmericaOxford University Press, 2024.

Dwyer, Michael D. Tinsel and Rust: How Hollywood Manufactured the Rust BeltOxford University Press, 2025.

Eng, Chris A. Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian AmericaNew York University Press, 2025.

Felker-Cantor, Max. DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in SchoolsUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Fouts, Sarah. Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street-Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina EraUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Gamino, Eric. Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South TexasUniversity of Georgia Press, 2025.

George, Marie-Amélie. Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal RecognitionCambridge University Press, 2024.

Hagerman, Margaret A. Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump’s AmericaNew York University Press, 2024.

Jeffery, Hannah E. A Monument to Blackness: Murals and Black Liberation, from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives MatterUniversity of Georgia Press, 2025.

Jenkins, Henry. Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar AmericaNew York University Press, 2025.

Jensen, Mikkel. David Simon’s American CityManchester University Press, 2026.

Jones, Douglas A. Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature Before EmancipationUniversity of Chicago Press, 2025.

Leinster, Ciarán. Postmodernism in Arthur Miller’s Long-Late PeriodBrill, 2025.

Levitt, Jeremy I. Beyond Borders: Martin Luther King Jr., Africa, and Pan-AfricanismCambridge University Press, 2026.

Maeda, Daryl Joji. Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce LeeNew York University Press, 2024.

McKelvey, Patrick. Disability Works: Performance After RehabilitationNew York University Press, 2024.

Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell. Puerto Rico: A National HistoryPrinceton University Press, 2024.

Morin, Karen M. Cattle Trails and Animals Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral ArchipelagoUniversity of Georgia Press, 2025.

Peyton, Caroline. Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American SouthUniversity of Georgia Press, 2025.

Reed, Julie L. Land, Language and Women: A Cherokee and American Educational HistoryUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Rockman, Seth. Plantation Goods: A Material of American SlaveryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2024.

Roper, Danielle. Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the AmericasDuke University Press, 2025.

Singerman, Howard; Re’al Christian; and Katie Hood Morgan. Acts of Art in Greenwich VillageUniversity of Chicago Press, 2025.

Smith, Crystal Simone. Runagate: Songs of the Freedom BoundDuke University Press, 2025.

Smith, Kylie M. Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Spady, James O’Neill. Take Freedom: Recovering the Fugitive History of the Denmark Vesey AffairUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2025.

Thompson, Heather Ann. Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White RagePenguin Random House, 2026.

Thompson, Joseph M. Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American PatriotismUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Vaid, Urvashi. The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi VaidDuke University Press, 2025.