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Available now: American Quarterly March 2012, Volume 64, Issue 1. In this issue, intellectuals and activists Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, Andrea J. Ritchie, Joey L. Mogul, and Kay Whitlock contribute "Queering Prison Abolition, Now?" An e-mail exchange between the participants frames this discussion about queer abolitionist politics. The issue also features "'Give Us a Ship’: The Vitenamese Repatriate Movement on Guam, 1975" by Jana K. Lipman from Tulane University. A new Teaching and Learning Guide has been added to the Teaching Tools section for the article.

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Editor Sarah Banet-Weiser appears as the first guest in "In Other Words," a new video series from the JHU Press. Tune in to learn more about "Sound Clash," the September 2011 special issue on sound in American culture. You can also visit Beyond the Page, an interactive section features multimedia related to the articles in the journal. Add to your appreciation of the Sound Clash issue with this new feature.

See the Call for Papers for the 2013 Special Issue on Speciesism, Racism, Sexism.

The journal has updated its Author Guidelines to introduce an online submission system.

Join the Conversation

American Quarterly is dedicated to being a forum for intellectual exchange among American studies scholars. The re-designed website creates new opportunities for scholars to connect outside of the printed journal. Good scholarship is only worthwhile if it is shared. Interdisciplinary scholarship in American studies hinges on communication between its scholars, and as the foremost journal of its kind, American Quarterly is at the center of this dialogue.

The new Interact section includes:

Teaching tools for using articles in the classroom

"AQ Then and Now," which compares and contrasts articles on a similar topic or object of study from different journal issues. Our first set of articles includes Clyde Woods’s “Katrina World: Blues, Bourbon, and the Return to the Source” with Eric Tang’s “A Gulf Unites Us: The Vietnamese Americans of Black New Orleans East.”

Reader commentary on a recent American Quarterly article to allow further engagement of published works. The first article up for discussion is “Hire Ed! Deconstructing the Crises in Academe” by Gregory Jay from the Volume 63, Issue 1 (March 2011) issue. Michael Bérubé of Penn State University has submitted the response. Read the response and explore the other opportunities to share in the conversation by adding your own commentary.