The New Americanist is seeking reviewers for the titles listed below. If you are interested, please write to newamericanistjournal@gmail.com and name the title you are interested in and your institutional affiliation.
The reviews should be 750-1000 words in length. Please offer only if you are able to complete the review.
Thank you.
Matthew Chambers, Editor
Charles T. Clotfelter – Unequal Colleges in the Age of Disparity
Eric Lott – Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism
Robert S. Levine – Race, Transnationalism, and Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
Lauren-Brooke Eisen – Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Heather Ann Thompson – Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City
Johann N. Neem – Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America
David A. Hollinger – Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World but Changed America
John O’Brien – Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys
Annie McClanahan – Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture
Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne (eds.) – Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran
David R. Collier – Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941–1979
Matthew Baigell – The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877–1935
David I.Spanagel – DeWitt Clinton and Amos Eaton: Geology and Power in Early New York
Roy L. Brooks – The Racial Glass Ceiling: Subordination in American Law and Culture
Thomas J.Wright – All Measures Short of War: The Contest for the Twenty-First Century and the Future of American Power
Digital
Heather Vrana (ed.) – Anti-Colonial Texts from Central American Student Movements, 1929-1983
Leslie Eckel and Clare Elliott (eds.) – The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies
Andrew Urban – Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long 19th Century
Nilda Flores-Gonzalez – Citizens but Not Americans: Race and Belonging among Latino Millenials
Safiya Umoja Noble – Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Andrew Apter – Oduduwa’s Chain: Locations of Culture in the Yoruba-Atlantic