If you are interested in reviewing a book from the list below for the American Studies journal, please contact Elizabeth Wilhelm at amerstud@ku.edu. Seriously, contact her now. We need reviewers and this is an amazing list of books!
- Brown Beauty by Laila Haidarali
- Activist New York by Steven H. Jaffe
- Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas by Kaitlin M. Murphy
- Stolen Life by Fred Moten
- The Universal Machine by Fred Moten
- Before Chicano: Citizenship and the Making of Mexican American Manhood, 1848-1959 by Alberto Varon
- Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam by Sylvia Chan-Malik
- People Must Live by Work: Direct Job Creation in America from FDR to Reagan by Steven Attewell
- After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life by Joshua Chambers-Letson
- Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibilities by Alexis Lothian
- This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America by Nine Silber
- Bodies as Evidence: Security, Knowledge, and Power, Edited by Mark Maguire, Ursula Rao, and Nils Zurawski
- Keywords for African American Studies, Edited by Erica R. Edwards, Roderick A. Ferguson, and Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar
- The Mourning After: Loss and Longing among Midcentury American Men, by John Ibson
- Race and Roots through Appalachia: Gone Home by Karida L. Brown
- Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation by Imani Perry
- Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai’i Statehood by Dean Itsui Saranillo
- Working in Hollywood: How the Studio System Turned Creativity into Labor by Ronny Regev
- Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture by Tamura Lomax
- Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance by Amber Jamilla Musser
- Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity by Ralina L. Joseph
- Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon”: The Folk in the City by David J. Puglia
- The Race of Sound: Listening, Timbre, and Vocality in African American Music, by Nina Sun Eidsheim
- Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature, Edited by Jennifer Travis and Jessica Despain
- Fugitive Modernities: Kisama and the Politics of Freedom by Jessica A. Krug
- Conversations in Maine: An Essential Text for My Generation of Radicals by Robin D. G. Kelley
- The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon by Jaime Harker
- Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson