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Volume 47 - February 2013

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Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012, $23.95). Pp. 156. isbn978 0 8223 5241 9.

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Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012, £55.00). Pp. xvi+214. ISBN 978 0 521 51421 7.

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Carol Lynn McKibben, Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012, $24.95). Pp. 325. isbn978 0 8047 7699 8.

Jefferson Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York: New Press, 2010, $21.95). Pp. 464. isbn978 1 59558 707 7.

Elana Zilberg, Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, $24.95). Pp. 344. isbn978 0 8223 4730 9.

Judith Lynne Hanna, Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, $55.00). Pp. 350. isbn978 0 292 72911 7.

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Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012, $75.00 cloth, $22.95 paper). Pp. xiii+277. isbn978 0 8047 7301 0, 978 0 8047 7300 3.

Helen Oakley, From Revolution to Migration: A Study of Contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American Crime Fiction (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York and Vienna: Peter Lang, 2012, £32.00/€35.00/$53.95). Pp. xiv+186. isbn978 3 03911 021 6.

Matt Grossmann, The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012, $24.95). Pp. 248. isbn978 0 8047 8116 9.

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Alfred Bendixen (ed.), A Companion to the American Novel (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, $199.95). Pp. 633. ISBN 978 1 4051 0119 6.

Grace Kyungwon Hong and Roderick A. Ferguson (eds.), Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011, $25.95 paper, $94.95 cloth). Pp. 384. isbn978 0 8223 4985 3, 978 0 8223 4970 9.

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African Americans Fight Their Civil War

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Andrew A. Erish, Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012, $60.00). Pp. ix+303. ISBN 978 0 2927 2870 7.

Julie Berebitsky, Sex and the Office: A History of Gender, Power, and Desire (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012, $38.00). Pp. x+359. isbn978 0 3001 1899 5.

David R. Swartz, Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, $47.50). Pp. 269. isbn978 0 8122 4441 0.

Mike Chasar, Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012, $27.50). Pp. 302. ISBN 978 0 2311 5865 7.

Patrick M. Erben, A Harmony of the Spirits: Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2012, $45.00). Pp. 352. isbn978 0 8078 3557 9.

Christian Koot, Empire at the Periphery: British Colonists, Anglo-Dutch Trade, and the Development of the British Atlantic, 1621–1713 (New York: New York University Press, 2011, $39.00). Pp. 312. isbn978 0 8147 4883 1.

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