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Spring 2020 Book Recommendations by . . .
General Interest
Race and Whiteness
American Studies
SF / Fantasy / Horror Studies
Comics Studies
The recommendation lists below are organized alphabetically by the author/editor’s last name.
General Interest
Marcus Baynes-Rock, Crocodile Undone: The Domestication of Australia’s Fauna
Jeremy Black, Military Strategy: A Global History
Brilliant and Kennedy, eds., World War II and the West It Wrought
Katherine Chandler, Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare
Amy Hildreth Chen, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market
Rebecca Coleman, Glitterworlds: The Future Politics of a Ubiquitous Thing
Jerusha O. Connor, The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College Campuses
Hamid Dabashi, The Emperor Is Naked: On the Inevitable Demise of the Nation State
Federico Finkelstein, A Brief History of Fascist Lies
Sherrin Frances, Libraries amid Protest: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism
Franke, et al., eds., Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War
Kevin M. Gannon, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto
Christine Hong, A Violent Peace: Race and U.S. Militarism in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
Amitava Kumar, Every Day I Write the Book: Notes on Style
Tess Lea, Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logics of Intervention
Susanna Lee, Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History
Aurélien Mondon and Aaron Winter, Reactionary Democracy: The Rise of the Far Right and the Myth of Populism
Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetics Judgment and Capitalist Form
Joshua O. Reno, Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness
Jenny Rice, Awful Archives: Conspiracy Theory, Rhetoric, and Acts of Evidence
Macklin Smith and Aurko Joshi, Rhymes in the Flow: How Rappers Flip the Beat
Kyong-Min Son, The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism
Kristina Spohr, Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989
Felicia Angeja Viator, To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America
Bradley C.S. Watson, Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea
Daniel Worden, Neoliberal Nonfictions: The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z
Helen Yaffe, We Are Cuba! How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World
race and whiteness
Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World (https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/dine-identity-in-a-twenty-first-century-world) 
Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469656144/free-the-land/) 
Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469655505/contagions-of-empire/) 
Katharine Bausch, He Thinks He’s Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era (UBC)
Harris Beider and Kusminder Chahal, The Other America: White Working Class Perspectives on Race, Identity and Change (Policy Press / Bristol)
Russell Cobb, The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State (Bison / Nerbaska)
Correa-Cabrera, Konrad, and Artibise, eds., North American Borders in Comparative Perspective (Arizona)
Lisa M. Corrigan, Black Feelings: Race and Affect in the Long Sixties (Mississippi)
Lucas A. Dietrich, Writing across the Color Line: U.S. Print Culture and the Rise of Ethnic Literature, 1877-1920 (Massachusetts)
Diverlus, Hudson, and Ware, eds., Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (Regina)
Adam H. Domby, The False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Virginia)
Eden Wales Freedman, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature (Mississippi)
Kim Gallon, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (Illinois)
Justin Gomer, White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights (North Carolina)
Beverly Greene Bond and Susan Eva O’Donovan, eds., Remembering the Memphis Massacre: An American Story (Georgia)
Margaret A. Hagerman, White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (NYU)
Benjamin M. Han, Beyond the Black and White TV: Asian and Latin American Spectacle in Cold War America (Rutgers)
Gerald Horne, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century (NYU)
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (NYU)
Khyati Y. Joshi, White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America (NYU)
Casey Ryan Kelly, Apocalypse Man: The Death Drive and the Rhetoric of White Masculine Victimhood (Ohio State)
Lauren R. Kerby, Saving History: How White Evangelicals Tour the Nation’s Capital and Redeem a Christian America (North Carolina)
Lloyd L. Lee, Diné Identity in a Twenty-First-Century World (Arizona)
Darryl Leroux, Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity (Manitoba)
Lethabo King, Navarro, and Smith, eds., Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Duke)
Kendra Marston, Postfeminist Whiteness: Problematising Melancholic Burden in Contemporary Hollywood (Edinburgh)
Clifford Mason, Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun (Rutgers)
Claudia Milian, LatinX (Minnesota)
Tom Mould, Overthrowing the Queen: Telling Stories of Welfare in America (Indiana)
Edward Onaci, Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (North Carolina)
Khary Oronde Polk, Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898–1948 (North Carolina)
Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America (Duke)
Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck, Tacit Racism (Chicago)
Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies (Minnesota)
Jeremy Schipper and Nyasha Junior, Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon (Oxford)
Sigal, Tortorici, and Whitehead, eds., Ethnopornography: Sexuality, Colonialism, and Archival Knowledge (Duke)
James Smethurst, Brick City Vanguard: Amiri Baraka, Black Music, Black Modernity (Massachusetts)
Terry Smith, Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box (Cambridge)
Ramon E. Soto-Crespo, The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction (Ohio)
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics (Chicago)
Quito Swan, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (Florida)
Matthew Teutsch, ed., Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (Mississippi)
Simón Ventura Trujillo, Land Uprising: Native Story Power and the Insurgent Horizons of Latinx Indigeneity (Arizona)
E. James West, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America (Illinois)
Hollywood Diplomacy: Film Regulation, Foreign Relations, and East Asian Representations
American studies
Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering
High on God: How Megachurches Won the Heart of America
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States
Authentically Orthodox: A Tradition-Bound Faith in American Life
Taking Leave, Taking Liberties: American Troops on the World War II Home Front
Taking Children: A History of American Terror
A Nation Like All Others: A Brief History of American Foreign Relations
Just Like Us: The American Struggle to Understand Foreigners
Threat Of Dissent: A History Of Ideological Exclusion And Deportation In The United States
The Romance of American Communism
The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form
How the Tea Party Captured the GOP: Insurgent Factions in American Politics
Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls: Women’s Country Music, 1930-1960
The Year of Peril: America in 1942
Such Splendid Prisons: Diplomatic Detainment in America during World War II
Sabotaged: Dreams of Utopia in Texas
Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation
Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America
Calamity: The Many Lives of Calamity Jane
Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
An Independent Empire: Diplomacy and War in the Making of the United States
Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances
When Sunflowers Bloomed Red: Kansas and the Rise of Socialism in America
Land, God, and Guns: Settler Colonialism and Masculinity in the American Heartland
The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America
News Parade: The American Newsreel and the World as Spectacle
Visualizing Fascism: The Twentieth-Century Rise of the Global Right
Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States
Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter
Ecologies of Harm: Rhetorics of Violence in the United States
Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II
American Zealots: Inside Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism
Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War
Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
Manan Desai, The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction (Temple)
Richard W. Maass, The Picky Eagle: How Democracy and Xenophobia Limited U.S. Territorial Expansion (Cornell)
Hubert Villeneuve, Teaching Anticommunism: Fred Schwarz and American Postwar Conservatism (McGill-Queen’s)
Colleen Woods, Freedom Incorporated: Anticommunism and Philippine Independence in the Age of Decolonization (Cornell)
SF / Fantasy / Horror Studies
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691182742/becoming-george-orwell) 
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre (https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9781496221162/) 
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/invoking-hope) 
Pacific Futures: Past and Present
Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible
Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times
Jordan Peele’s Get Out: Political Horror
The Twilight Zone (TV Milestones)
Twin Peaks (TV Milestones)
The American Robot: A Cultural History
Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television
Becoming George Orwell: Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO
Tolkien’s Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth
Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction
Furious Feminisms: Alternate Routes on Mad Max: Fury Road
Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture
The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture
Household Horror: Cinematic Fear and the Secret Life of Everyday Objects
Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling’s Fantasies and Other Fictions
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Octavia E. Butler
Utopia and Its Discontents: Plato to Atwood
Imagining the Unimaginable: Speculative Fiction and the Holocaust
Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy
Science Fiction and Psychology
Science Fiction and Climate Change
Biology and Manners: Essays on the Worlds and Works of Lois McMaster Bujold
Final Frontiers: Science Fiction and Techno-Science in Non-Aligned India
Fighting for the Future: Essays on Star Trek: Discovery
The Squid Cinema From Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia
Comics Studies
Unstable Masks: Whiteness and American Superhero Comics
Comics of the New Europe: Reflections and Intersections
Ms. Marvel’s America: No Normal
Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia
PathoGraphics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community
Rebuilding Story Worlds: The Obscure Cities
Children’s and Young Adults Comics
Wonder Woman: The Female Body and Popular Culture
The Content of Our Caricature: African American Comic Art and Political Belonging
Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia (https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/G/Graphic-Indigeneity) 
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