..., Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s . By Sarah Meer. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2005. viii, 332 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $24.95. Confluences: Postcolonialism, African American Literary Studies, and the Black Atlantic . By John Cullen Gruesser. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press...

... marked by skilled appropriations and unresolved hybridities’’ (2). The claims here, con- tained though they are within the years 1821 through 1823, are more than jus- tified by a study that should lead to a reconsideration of the centrality of drama in African American cultural history—and that should...

...Paul Grimstad The African American Experience in Crime Fiction: A Critical Study . By Crafton Robert E. . Jefferson, NC : McFarland . 2015 . 204 pp. Paper , $29.95 . The Arresting Eye: Race and the Anxiety of Detection . By Huh Jinny . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia...

... Book Reviews 663 The White Image in the Black Mind: A Study of African American Literature. By Jane Davis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood. 2000. xx, 161 pp. $55.00. Reversing the title of George M. Fredrickson’s well-known historical study (The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro...

... takeover of American publishers and the rise of Black studies programs, this article reconstructs a lost moment in both cultural history and business history. Starting with the story of The Black Book , a “scrapbook-history” of African American experience edited by Morrison and published by Random House...

... Univ. Press, 1997). The following historical studies of the Civil Rights movement are also especially useful for their considerations of US Cold War foreign policy and African American anticolonialism: Thomas Borstelmann, The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations...

...Mark Chia-Yon Jerng Science fiction poses particular dilemmas for referential reading practices privileged in ethnic literary studies and African American literature. Because science fiction often requires the reader to discern the governing norms and values of its constructed, alternative world...

... queer of color critique black queer studies post-Reconstruction African American novel Passing is often not about bold-faced opposition to a dominant paradigm or a wholesale selling out to that form. Like disidentification itself, passing can be a third modality where a dominant structure is co...

... that despite the rhetorical failures in both texts that ensue from Whipple's complicated race politics, contemporary scholars of American literature should not ignore the biographies' sociopolitical and economic underpinnings, as the latter provide crucial insights into the study of early African American...

... in the historiography of wartime culture. Cohen analyzes a series of contraband works: abolitionist poems by John Greenleaf Whittier; African American spirituals like “O Let My People Go”; minstrel songs like “Kingdom Coming”; and an assortment of anonymous poems published as broadsides and in periodicals...

... played a vital role in transfers of natural knowledge to western Europe from its Asian, American, and African dominions, and vice versa (Millones Figueroa and Ledezma 2005; Ewalt 2009; Prieto 2011; Asúa 2014; Gómez París 2021). Further, a handful of historians of Jesuit science consider many Jesuits whom...

... and make a life for themselves. Stewart reads the revised selection from Jacobs's narrative as a case study of core tensions in Child's Reconstruction rhetoric and, more broadly, the anxious rhetoric surrounding the postemancipation status of African Americans in 1865. In The Freedmen's Book , Child...

... shift calls to mind Hurston’s hypercanonization in American studies, African American studies, and women’s studies beginning in the late 1970s. The momentum for this latest trend comes in part from contemporary Southernists’ concerted, sometimes self- conscious, attempts to revise...

... studies Afro-Indigenous studies African American studies In 1887, William Shoe Boots appeared before the Cherokee Citizenship Commission (CCC) and narrated a genealogy of Black Cherokee belonging that exceeded legal and national definitions. The CCC assessed citizenship claims through the terms...

...Christopher Brown But while Sollors’s brief introduction to the volume gestures to the unsettled tenor of African American literary studies, suggesting that the subjects of each of his essays “resist[ed] notions of a prescriptive aesthetic” (4) for black writing by turning to a “transnational...

... will be of particular interest to scholars of novel theory, women’s studies, and African American studies. The Twenty-First Century African American Novel and the Critique of Whiteness in Everyday Life: Blackness as a Strategy for Social Change . By E. Lâle Demirtürk. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2016. xxxvi, 277...

..., is given in recognition of a significant contribution to the study of American literature. Houston Baker is the Susan Fox Beischer and George D. Beischer Arts & Sciences Professor of English and Professor of African and African American Studies at Duke University. 2003 Norman Foerster Prize...

... . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2013 . ix, 227 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book, $27.50 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 These three first books by talented rising scholars in the rich, diverse, and rapidly developing field of African American studies engage...

... in his thinking. Critical work by theorists including James Clifford and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo augment Doku’s formulation of the avant-garde, discrepant, and black cosmopolitanisms that shape DuBois’s intellectual trajectory. This work will be of interest to scholars of African and African American...

.... B. Du Bois’s reliance on census data as he aimed to systematize the empirical study of African Americans, incorporating the census prominently into groundwork for “what we now call African American studies” (31). Soto argues further that Harlem Renaissance literature was at once shaped...