Send request to review a book listed above for the __Journal of
Popular Culture__ or the __Journal of American Culture__ to
Peter Rollins (rollins@osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu).
Lynnea Chapman King, English Dept, Texas Tech U. Lubbock, TX
ykflc@ttacs.ttu.edu
Indiana University Press: All IUP books listed here.
BLACK POLICE IN AMERICA
BY W. MARVIN DULANEY
(Draws on archives, interviews, and newspapers in a history of
black Americans in law enforcement since Reconstruction. 193
pages. March 22)
THE EMERGING MIDWEST: UPLAND SOUTHERNERS AND THE POLITICAL
CULTURE OF THE OLD NORTHWEST, 1787-1861
BY NICOLE ETCHESON
(Explores the development of midwestern identity among those who
migrated from the South. 224 pages. March 22)
BIKE BOYS, DRAG QUEENS, AND SUPERSTARS: AVANT-GARDE, MASS
CULTURE, AND GAY IDENTITIES IN THE 1960S UNDERGROUND CINEMA
BY JUAN A. SUAREZ
(Identifies a gay-influenced cinematic movement in 1960s New York
that recycled elements of popular culture into avant-garde film;
focuses on films by Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol.
384 pages. March 22)
New York University Press: All NYUP books listed here.
INTERPRETING JUDAISM IN A POSTMODERN AGE:
STEVEN KEPNES, EDITOR
(Essays that apply deconstructionist and other postmodern
approaches to topics in Jewish culture, history, and religion.
392 pages. March 29)
TITUBA, RELUCTANT WITCH OF SALEM: DEVILISH INDIANS AND PURITAN
FANTASIES
BY ELAINE G. BRESLAW
(Reconstructs the life of the Caribbean Indian slave who was at
the center of the 1692 witch trials in Salem; argues that Tituba
actively attempted to prolong her life by testimony that
manipulated Puritan fears of devil-worshipping Indians. 243
pages. March 29)
MAKING MEN MORAL: SOCIAL ENGINEERING DURING THE GREAT WAR
BY NANCY K. BRISTOW
(A study of the Commission of Training Camp Activities, and
agency created by the Wilson Administration to promote temperance
and chastity among newly mobilized troops. 298 pages. March 29)
DIXIE DEBATES: PERSPECTIVES ON SOUTHERN CULTURES
RICHARD H. KING AND HELEN TAYLOR, EDITORS
(Topics include the vision of Southerness in __Southern Living__
magazine; the role of music in the packaging of New Orleans as a
tourist site; and the literary aesthetics of Alice Walker. 242
pages. March 29)
Routledge:
LANGUAGE AND CONTROL IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
BY MURRAY KNOWLES AND KIRSTEN MALMKJAER
(A computer-based, linguistic analysis of children's literature
that compares texts from the 19th and 20th centuries; focuses on
how writers use language to instill a particular world view. 295
pages. March 22)
Rutgers University Press: All RUP books listed here.
OUR TOWN: RACE, HOUSING, AND THE SOUL OF SUBURBIA
BY DAVID L. KIRP
(Traces the local, state, and national impact of a fair-housing
lawsuit brought in Mount Laurel, N.J., in 1971. 267 pages.
March 29)
ABORTION AT WORK: IDEOLOGY AND PRACTICE IN A FEMINIST CLINIC
BY WENDY SIMONDS
(An ethnographic study of workers in a non-profit abortion clinic
in a southeastern American city in the early 1990s. 262 pages.
March 29)
THE NEW WINTER SOLDIERS: GI AND VETERAN DISSENT DURING THE
VIETNAM ERA
BY RICHARD MOSER
(Uses interviews and memoirs to explore antiwar activism among
veterans and soldiers during the Vietnam War; sets the movement
in the context of the "citizen soldier" tradition of the American
Revolution. 300 pages. March 29)
Smithsonian Institution Press: All SIP books listed here.
TROLLEY WARS: STREETCAR WORKERS ON THE LINE
BY SCOTT MOLLOY
(Focuses on the 1902 strike by streetcar workers in Pawtucket and
Providence, R.I. 238 pages. March 29)
RACE, DISCOURSE, AND THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAS: A NEW WORLD VIEW
VERA LAWRENCE HYATT AND REX NETTLEFORD, EDITORS
(Essays that integrate African and American Indian history into
the narrative of European exploration. 302 pages. March 29)
ILLEGAL TENDER: COUNTERFEITING AND THE SECRET SERVICE IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
BY DAVID R. JOHNSON
(Examines the economic and social world of American
counterfeiters, and traces the anti-counterfeiting campaign that
began with the creation of the U.S. Secret Service in 1865. 222
pages. March 29)
Southern Illinois University Press: All SIUP books listed here.
THE PRESIDENT'S MAN: LEO CROWLEY AND FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT IN PEACE
AND WAR
BY STUART L. WEISS
(A biography of the American banker who was appointed chairman of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1934 and served in
that and other positions in the Roosevelt Administrations. 311
pages. March 29)
THE LIVES AND TIMES OF BONNIE AND CLYDE
BY E.R. MILNER
(Uses previously unpublished material to trace the lives,
romance, and criminal partnership of Bonnie Parker and Clyde
Barrow, whose exploits in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas
ended with their deaths in a police ambush in May 1934. 187
pages. March 29)
KEATON'S SILENT SHORTS: BEYOND THE LAUGHTER
BY GABRIELLA OLDHAM
(Discusses the American comedian's work as the director and star
of 19 short films produced from 1920 to 1923. 398 pages. March
29)
Syracuse University Press:
HARLEM AT WAR: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN WWII
BY NAT BRANDT
(Uses the New York neighborhood to explore the origins of
tensions in American black communities during World War II;
focuses on factors that led to the August 1943 riot in which six
blacks were killed, 700 injured, and 600 arrested. 296 pages.
March 22)
University of Alabama Press: All UAP books listed here.
OUR SOUTHERN ZION: A HISTORY OF CALVINISM IN THE SOUTH CAROLINA
LOW COUNTRY
BY ERSKINE CLARKE
(Challenges the "cavalier myth" of the low country that depicts
the region's society as especially dedicated to amusement and
neglectful of religion and intellectual pursuits. 472 pages.
March 22)
THE NEW CRUSADES, THE NEW HOLY LAND: CONFLICT IN THE SOUTHERN
BAPTIST CONVENTION, 1969-1991
BY DAVID T. MORGAN
(A history of the conflict between "fundamentalists" and
"moderates" in the Southern Baptist Convention that led
eventually to the emergence of a moderate "quasi-denomination"
known as the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
246 pages. March 29)
A NEW DEAL FOR SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY
BY EDWIN A. LYON
(Discusses archaeological projects sponsored in the southeastern
United States by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and
other "New Deal" agencies in the 1930s and T40s. 283 pages.
March 29)
University of California Press:
FATHERING THE NATION: AMERICAN GENEALOGIES OF SLAVERY AND FREEDOM
BY RUSS CASTRONOVO
(Explores conflicting images of national identity in literary and
other works from the mid-19th century; covers materials from
canonical literature to landscape paintings to slave
autobiographies. 295 pages. March 29)
University of Chicago Press: All UCP books listed here.
INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: CHILD CARE, EDUCATION,
MEDICAL CARE, AND LONG-TERM CARE IN AMERICA
VICTOR R. FUCHS, EDITOR
(Essays on economic, political, and social forces that shape
policy in the four areas. 353 pages. March 22)
FREE TO ALL: CARNEGIE LIBRARIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE, 1890-1920
BY ABIGAIL A. VAN SLYCK
(An architectural and social history of the Carnegie library
program, a philanthropic project that helped construct more than
1,600 public libraries in the United States. 232 pages. March
29)
University of Minnesota Press:
THE HIDDEN FOUNDATION: CINEMA AND THE QUESTION OF CLASS
DAVID E. JAMES AND RICK BERG, EDITORS
(Essays on issues of class in film history and theory; topics
include the expression of class in _film noir_, and the politics
of class in 1950s Chinese cinema. 297 pages. March 29)
University of Toronto Press:
ALLEGORIES OF CONTAMINATION: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI'S "TRILOGY OF
LIFE"
BY PATRICK A. RUMBLE
(A critical study of the Italian directorUs trilogy _The
Decameron_ (1970), _The Canterbury Tales_ (1972), and _The
Arabian Nights_ (1974). 207 pages.
March 22)