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:
Allen Jr., Sylvester and Belle Boggs. The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction through Black Lives Matter. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Alpers, Benjamin L. Happy Days: Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America. Rutgers University Press, 2024.
Arnaldo Jr., Constancio R. Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play. New York University Press, 2024.
Barber, Tiffany E. Undesirability and Her Sisters: Black Women’s Visual Work and the Ethics of Representation. New York University Press, 2025.
Benjamin, Karen. Good Parents, Better Homes and Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Berger, Martin A. Inventing Stereotype: Race, Representation, and Interwar America. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Chen, Kuan-Jen. Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and National Security. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Clark, Tom S.; Adam N. Glynn; and Michael Leo Owens. Deadly Force: Police Shootings in Urban America. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Cross, Gary S. Free Time: The History of an Elusive Ideal. New York University Press, 2024.
Crosthwaite, Paul. Speculative Time: American Literature in an Age of Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Davis, Shardé M., ed. Being Black in the Ivory: Truth-Telling about Racism in Higher Education. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Doolan, Yuri W. The First Amerasians: Mixed Race Koreans from Camptowns to America. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Eng, Chris A. Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America. New York University Press, 2025.
Felker-Cantor, Max. DARE to Say No: Policing and the War on Drugs in Schools. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Fouts, Sarah. Rebuilding New Orleans: Immigrant Laborers and Street-Food Vendors in the Post-Katrina Era. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Gamino, Eric. Enforcing Order on the Border: Race, Policing, and Immigration Enforcement in South Texas. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
George, Marie-Amélie. Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Gross, Nora. Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Hagerman, Margaret A. Children of a Troubled Time: Growing Up with Racism in Trump’s America. New York University Press, 2024.
Jeffery, Hannah E. A Monument to Blackness: Murals and Black Liberation, from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Lives Matter. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Jenkins, Henry. Where the Wild Things Were: Boyhood and Permissive Parenting in Postwar America. New York University Press, 2025.
Jensen, Mikkel. David Simon’s American City. Manchester University Press, 2026.
Jones, Douglas A. Pragmatics of Democracy: A Political Theory of African American Literature Before Emancipation. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Leinster, Ciarán. Postmodernism in Arthur Miller’s Long-Late Period. Brill, 2025.
Lystra, Karen. Love and the Working Class: The Inner Worlds of Nineteenth Century Americans. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Maeda, Daryl Joji. Like Water: A Cultural History of Bruce Lee. New York University Press, 2024.
McKelvey, Patrick. Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation. New York University Press, 2024.
Meléndez-Badillo, Jorell. Puerto Rico: A National History. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Morin, Karen M. Cattle Trails and Animals Lives: The Founding of an American Carceral Archipelago. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Pardini, Samuel F.S., ed. Writing Home: Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler. SUNY Press, 2024.
Peyton, Caroline. Radioactive Dixie: A Nuclear History of the American South. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Pyle, Kenneth P. Hiroshima and the Historians: Debating America’s Most Controversial Decision. Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Reed, Julie L. Land, Language and Women: A Cherokee and American Educational History. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Rockman, Seth. Plantation Goods: A Material of American Slavery. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Roper, Danielle. Hemispheric Blackface: Impersonation and Nationalist Fictions in the Americas. Duke University Press, 2025.
Shimizu, Celene Parreñas. The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America. Duke University Press, 2024.
Shonekan, Stephanie and Adam Seagrave. Race and the American Story. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Singerman, Howard; Re’al Christian; and Katie Hood Morgan. Acts of Art in Greenwich Village. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Smith, Crystal Simone. Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound. Duke 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 Affair. University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Thompson, Joseph M. Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism. University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Vaid, Urvashi. The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid. Duke University Press, 2025.
Zaborskis, Mary. Queer Childhoods: Institutional Futures of Indigeneity, Race, and Disability. New York University Press, 2024.