Volume 59, Number 4

December 2007

Table of Contents

Essays

Occult Racism: The Masking of Race in the Hmong Hunter Incident
A Dialogue between Anthropologist Louisa Schein and Filmmaker/Activist Va-Megn Thoj
Louisa Schein and Va-Megn Thoj

“L’Ouragan de Flammes” (“The Hurricane of Flames”):
New Orleans and Transamerican Catastrophe, 1866/2005
Anna Brickhouse

“Come Let Us Build a New World Together”: SNCC and Photography of the Civil Rights Movement
Leigh Raiford

Reading Nanook’s Smile: Visual Sovereignty, Indigenous Revisions of Ethnography, and Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner)
Michelle H. Raheja

Public Sites Versus Public Sights: The Progressive Response to Outdoor Advertising and the Commercialization of Public Space
Laura Baker

Event Review

The Ballad of Becks and Posh
Andrew Ross

Book Reviews

Of Silver and Serotonin: Thinking Through Depression, Inheritance, and Illness Narratives
Susan Cahn
The Family Silver: A Memoir of Depression and Inheritance by Sharon O’Brien

Race Worlds: Discrimination, American-Style, in the Middle East
Melani McAlister
America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier by Robert Vitalis

“zigging and zagging across temporal and textual realms”: On Writing Histories about the Philippines in American Studies
Victor Bascara
Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals by Augusto Fauni Espiritu
The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines by Vicente L. Rafael
The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Paul A. Kramer

What Winning Looks Like: Critical Environmental Justice Studies and the Future of a Movement
Joni Adamson
Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement edited by David Naguib Pellow and Robert J. Brulle
Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner

Are We There Yet? Yearnings for a Discursive Shift in Black Cultural Studies
Nicole R. Fleetwood
Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation by Herman Gray
Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap by Eithne Quinn

Talking Points Memo
Doug Rossinow
Transforming America: Politics and Culture in the Reagan Years by Robert M. Collins
Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s by Gil Troy
The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan by John Ehrman

Whispering in a Million Ears: Remembering the Intimate Power of Radio
Emily Klein
It’s One O’Clock and Here Is Mary Margaret McBride: A Radio Biography by Susan Ware
Radio’s Intimate Public: Network Broadcasting and Mass-Mediated Democracy by Jason Loviglio