Volume 60, Number 2

June 2008

Table of Contents

Currents
Counterinsurgency and Torture
Thomas A. Bass

Forum:
Native Feminisms without Apology

Introduction: Native Feminisms Engage American Studies
Andrea Smith and J. Kehaulani Kauanui

From White into Red: Captivity Narratives as Alchemies of Race and Citizenship
Audra Simpson

Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: Native Women’s Activism against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada
Joanne Barker

Felt Theory
Dian Million

Strategies of Erasure: U.S. Colonialism and Native Hawaiian Feminism
Lisa Kahaleole Hall

Native Hawaiian Decolonization and the Politics of Gender
J. Kehaulani Kauanui

Carving Navajo National Boundaries: Patriotism, Tradition, and the Diné Marriage Act of 2005
Jennifer Denetdale

(Re)Mapping Indigenous Presence on the Land in Native Women’s Literature
Mishuana Goeman

Learning across Differences: Native and Ethnic Studies Feminisms
Renya K. Ramirez

American Studies without America: Native Feminisms and the Nation-State
Andrea Smith

Essays

Belly Dancing: Arab-Face, Orientalist Feminism, and U.S. Empire
Sunaina Maira

Cold War Re-Visions: Representation and Resistance in the Unseen Salt of the Earth
Ben Balthaser

The Clearly Obscene and the Queerly Obscene: Heteronormativity and Obscenity in Cold War Los Angeles
Whitney Strub

Charting Progress: Francis Amasa Walker’s Statistical Atlas of the United States and Narratives of Western Expansion
Thomas P. Kinnahan

Event Review

Outside Art: Exhibiting Snapshot Photography
Catherine Zuromskis

Book Reviews

We Are What We Teach: American Studies in the K-16 Classroom
Adam Golub
American Identities: An Introductory Textbook edited by Lois P. Rudnick, Judith E. Smith, and Rachel Lee Rubin
Writing Our Communities: Local Learning and Public Culture edited by Dave Winter and Sarah Robbins
Writing America: Classroom Literacy and Public Engagement edited by Sarah Robbins and Mimi Dyer

Slavery, Past and Present
Edlie Wong
Wound of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation by Jessica Adams
Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M. H. Camp
Slavery on Trial: Law, Abolition, and Print Culture by Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Victory of Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, the Civil War, and American Literature, 1852–1867 by Deak Nabors

The State of Prison
Jason Haslam
Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime by Dylan Rodríguez
Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy edited by Joy James
Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice by Michael Hames-Garcia
Prose and Cons: Essays on Prison Literature in the United States edited by D. Quentin Miller
The Spectacle of Death: Populist Literary Responses to American Capital Cases by Kristin Boudreau

Orientalizing American Studies
Malini Johar Schueller
Morocco Bound: Disorienting America’s Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express by Brian T. Edwards
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism by Timothy Marr

Toward a “Subjectless” Discourse: Engaging Transnationalist and Postcolonial Approaches in Asian American Studies
Nhi Lieu
Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique by Kandice Chuh

Contributors