Volume 61, Number 4

December 2009

Table of Contents

A Note About the Cover
Curtis Marez

Currents

In Memory of Emory Elliott
Katherine Kinney

The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut
Malini Johar Schueller

Essays

An “Orphan” with Two Mothers: Transnational and Transracial Adoption, the Cold War, and Contemporary Asian American Cultural Politics
Jodi Kim

Interlopers in the Realm of High Culture: “Music Moms” and the Performance of Asian and Asian American Identities
Grace Wang

The Ecological Landscapes of Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson
David Kinkela

Book Reviews

The Importance of Place in Post-Everything American Studies
Matthew Pratt Guterl
New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott by George B. Handley
Blackface Cuba, 1840–1895 by Jill Lane
Waves of Decolonization: Discourses of Race and Hemispheric Citizenship in Cuba, Mexico, and the United States by David Luis-Brown
The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery by Rebecca J. Scott
Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperalisms, 1898–1976 by Harilaos Stecopoulos

Putting the Market in Its Places
Cotten Seiler
A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey
Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age by Toby Miller
Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture by Lisa Rofel

Youth of Color and the City
Matt Delmont
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 by Andrew Diamond
The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II by Luis Alvarez
Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Marr Maira
Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age by Philip Kasinitz

Against Proper Affective Objects
Rebecca Wanzo
The Female Complaint by Lauren Berlant
The Affective Turn: Theorizing the Social edited by Patricia Ticineto Clough
The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality by Elizabeth Povinelli

Event Review:

Synesthetic Sabor: Translation and Popular Knowledge in American Sabor
Priscilla Peña Ovalle