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Book and Film Reviews for Interdisciplinary Studies

Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life

Review

Hunt, Chloe. "“The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .”: Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory." American Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2020): 507-517. doi:10.1353/aq.2020.0025.

Blasian Invasion: Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex

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Anderson, Crystal S. Review of Blasian Invasion: Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex, by Myra S. Washington. American Studies 59, no. 1 (2020): 115-116. doi:10.1353/ams.2020.0007.

Black Women, Black Love: America's War on African American Marriage

Reviews

Holmes, Anna. 2020. "BLACK WOMEN, BLACK LOVE." New York Times Book Review, Dec 13, 34. https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fblack-women-love%2Fdocview%2F2469291140%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D13661.

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Reviews

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. 2020. "The Color Line." New York Times Book Review, Aug 09, 1-1,16. https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fcolor-line%2Fdocview%2F2431205622%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D13661.

The Color Line and the Assembly Line: Managing Race in the Ford Empire

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Enstad, Nan. Review of The Color Line and the Assembly Line: Managing Race in the Ford Empire, by Elizabeth D. Esch. American Studies 58, no. 4 (2019): 121-122. doi:10.1353/ams.2019.0051.

The Dead Are Rising: The Life of Malcolm X

Reviews

Jeffries, Michael P. 2020. "By any Means Necessary." New York Times Book Review, Nov 15, 16. https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fany-means-necessary%2Fdocview%2F2460601750%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D13661.

Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film

Reviews

Hunt, Chloe. "“The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .”: Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory." American Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2020): 507-517. doi:10.1353/aq.2020.0025.

The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and The Debate Over Race in America

Reviews

Wheatcroft, Wheatley. "The Ghetto and the Mansion: The Battle Between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 2020, https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fire-is-upon-us-by-nicholas-buccola-book-review/

From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century

Reviews

Garrett, Scott, Shennette. "What Price Wholeness?" New York Review of Books, February 11, 2021..

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

Review

Works Cited Greenidge, Kerri. "Agents of Change." New York Times Book Review, Dec 20, 2020, pp. 1-17. ProQuest, https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fagents-change%2Fdocview%2F2471028551%2Fse-2%3Faccounti

The Lonely Letters

Review

Pak, Yumi. Review of The Lonely Letters, by Ashon T. Crawley. American Studies 59, no. 2 (2020): 57-58. doi:10.1353/ams.2020.0017.

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black & Free in America

Reviews

Oluo, Ijeoma. "Black, Gay and Becoming Visible." New York Times Company, last modified Aug 08.

None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life

Reviews

Hunt, Chloe. "“The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .”: Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory." American Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2020): 507-517. doi:10.1353/aq.2020.0025.

Queer Times, Black Futures

Review

Hunt, Chloe. "“The Blackness We Leave Behind . . .”: Speculative Approaches to Time and Space in Black Critical Theory." American Quarterly 72, no. 2 (2020): 507-517. doi:10.1353/aq.2020.0025.

Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy

Review

Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination

Review

So You Want To Talk About Race?

Reviews

Stephens, Christopher John. 2018. "'so You Want to Talk about Race'?" PopMatters, Mar 06. https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fso-you-want-talk-about-race%2Fdocview%2F2014354444%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D13661

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Reviews

Works Cited Greenidge, Kerri. "Agents of Change." New York Times Book Review, Dec 20, 2020, pp. 1-17. ProQuest, https://corvette.salemstate.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fmagazines%2Fagents-change%2Fdocview%2F2471028551%2Fse-2%3Faccounti

White Fright:The Sexual Panic at the Heart of America's Racist History

Reviews

Holmes, Anna. "Dissecting Black Love, White Tears and Racialized Sexual Panic: The Shortlist." New York Times Company, last modified Nov 17.