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...Adam Gussow 2006 Lying Up a Nation: Race and Black Music . By Ronald Radano. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2003. xix, 417 pp. Paper, $27.50. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties . By Scott Saul. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press. 2003. xiv, 394 pp...

...: by refusing to regard his sources as “mere repositories of empirical detail” (13), he ultimately models “a reading practice that supplements positivist historicism” (51). Chapter 1 examines how Liberia’s nonelite black settlers countered the vision of freedom espoused by their American Colonization...

...Noelle Dubay [email protected] On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay . By Cheryl A. Wall Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2018 . x, 276 pp. Cloth, $90.00 ; paper, $29.95 ; e-book available. Empire of Ruin: Black...

... beyond” (4), the book misses an opportunity to engage with Afrofuturism. In Conjuring Freedom , Jabir explicitly takes Black masculinity as his central concern. He adds to the historical record through rich interdisciplinary analysis of the military, musical, and religious culture shared among...

...John McGowan © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom . By Cary Nelson. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. ix, 289 pp. $27.95. The New American Exceptionalism . By Donald E. Pease. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2009...

.... Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel. By Edlie L. Wong. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2009. viii, 337 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $24.00. Book Reviews Beyond Douglass: New Perspectives on Early African American Literature. Ed...

... argue that cats emerge in Tom Sawyer as captive bodies (among many hard-to-see captives). In the constrained but spectacular movements of these captive bodies, the novel troubles the particularly American freedom actualized in Tom’s play and gestures to a fugitive or feral movement that, though...

...Russ Castronovo Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species . By Neel Ahuja . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2016 . xix, 262 pp. Cloth, $89.95 ; paper, $24.95 ; e-book, $14.49 . The Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages...

...Grant Shreve If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right . By Christopher Douglas . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press . 2016 . viii, 367 pp. Cloth, $39.95 . The Production of American Religious Freedom . By Finbarr Curtis . New...

...Andrea Stone Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830–1940 . By Nihad M. Farooq New York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . xiv, 343 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $30.00 . Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture...

... of niceness” (33), while Cornel West’s “non-market values,” such as “love for others, loyalty to an ethical ideal and social freedom” (94), offer a blueprint for “organizing society beyond private ownership” (55). Even after persuasively documenting the long history of structural disavowals performed in its...

...Andrew Donnelly Abstract This article contrasts the reading pedagogy inspired by the “talking book” and the reading pedagogy described by Frederick Douglass. The talking book offers literacy as a thing to be acquired that can be traded for freedom. “Literacy as a gift” inculcates in students a view...

... and treat with some skepticism claims to have discovered a triumphant freedom—including freedom lying beyond the shores of critique. This entrepreneurial narrative, Smith in particular argues, risks channeling legitimate dissatisfaction with the present into a quest for novelty. Two questions remain...

...Ed White Philadelphia Stories: America’s Literature of Race and Freedom . By Otter Samuel . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2010 . xii , 396 pp. $35.00 . Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History . By Ernest John . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North...

...Jennifer Greeson Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America . By Chakkalakal Tess . Urbana : Univ. of Illinois Press . 2011 . 145 pp. $40.00 . Righteous Violence: Revolution, Slavery, and the American Renaissance . By Reynolds Larry J...

... voices of children, slaves, and other marginalized people. Duane recovers and analyzes the records of the New York African Free School in the 1810s and 1820s, an archive that features the work of the first generation of black children to inherit freedom in New York City. She argues that the scripted...

..., writers described it by the temperance movement's familiar metaphor for habituation to alcohol: self-enslavement. “Opium slaves” joined the ranks of figurative “slaves to the bottle,” as implicitly white men who had ironically squandered their freedom in exchange for a degrading compulsion. At the same...

... in newsprint constituted the agency and subjectivity of slaves who petitioned Northern courts for freedom (in counterdistinction from the criminal will of the fugitive). Their cases reveal the contradictory logic by which abolitionists disregarded the slaves' express desires to remain with their masters...

...Theo Hummer © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 A Freedom Bought with Blood: African American War Literature from the Civil War to World War II . By Jennifer C. James. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2007. 324 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.50. Behind the Lines...

...Rebecca Wanzo By Angelyn Mitchell. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press. 2002. xiv,170 pp. Cloth, $59.00; paper, $20.00. By Dwight A. McBride. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2002. xvi, 205 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $19.00. 2004 Book Reviews The Freedom to Remember: Narrative...