Viet Thanh Nguyen. Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016. 384 pp. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-66034-2.
Reviewed by David Kieran (Washington & Jefferson College) Published on H-Amstdy (April, 2017) Commissioned by Eric Covey
A New Politics of Memory
Viet Nguyen. The Sympathizer: A Novel. New York: Grove Press, 2016. 384 pp. $26.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8021-2345-9.
Reviewed by Antonella Lettieri Published on H-Amstdy (April, 2017) Commissioned by Katharina Donn
A Man of Two Faces
Viet Thanh Nguyen. Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. 240 pp. $150.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-19-514699-8.
Reviewed by Josephine Park (University of Pennsylvania) Published on H-Amstdy (April, 2017) Commissioned by Eric Covey
Revisiting Race and Resistance
Andrew Lipman. The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. 360 pp. $38.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-20766-8.
Reviewed by Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy Published on H-Amstdy (September, 2016) Commissioned by Katharina Donn
A Crucible of Native Modernity
Rebecca Kay Jager. Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. 368 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8061-4851-9.
Reviewed by Carmen Gomez-Galisteo (UNED--Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain) Published on H-Amstdy (September, 2016) Commissioned by Katharina Donn
Traitors, Intermediaries, or Myths?
Hillary Warren. There's Never Been a Show Like Veggie Tales: Sacred Messages in a Secular Market. New York: AltaMira Press, 2005. 144 pp. $21.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7591-0569-0.
Reviewed by Charles Brown (Albright College) Published on H-Amstdy (September, 2012) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
Sacred Consumption in a Secular Market
John Muthyala. Reworlding America: Myth, History, and Narrative. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. 232 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8214-1675-4.
Reviewed by Ralph Bauer (University of Maryland, College Park) Published on H-Amstdy (April, 2009) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
American Studies and the Hemisphere
Timothy Hodgdon. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965-1983. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. e-book. ISBN 978-0-231-50952-7.
Reviewed by Anna Zuschlag Published on H-Amstdy (November, 2008) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
How To Be A Manly Longhair
Mark Hulsether. Religion, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth-Century United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 249 pp. $25.50 (paper), ISBN 978-0-231-14403-2.
Reviewed by Matthew A. Sutton Published on H-Amstdy (November, 2008) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
Religious Road Trip
Victoria Clark. Allies for Armageddon: The Rise of Christian Zionism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. x + 331 pp. Illustrations. $28.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-11698-4.
Reviewed by Amy Frykholm Published on H-Amstdy (October, 2008) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
Eye on Zion
Joseph L. Price. Rounding the Bases: Baseball and Religion in America. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2006. xi + 260 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-86554-999-9.
Reviewed by Arthur Remillard Published on H-Amstdy (October, 2008) Commissioned by Kelly J. Baker
Playing and Praying at the Church of Baseball?
Nathaniel C. Comfort, ed. The Panda's Black Box: Opening up the Intelligent Design Controversy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. xv + 165 pp. $20.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8018-8599-0.
Reviewed by Jason Zinser (Department of Philosophy, University of North Florida) Published on H-Amstdy (August, 2008)
Colin Kidd. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. vii + 309 pp. Colin Kidd. The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 309 S. $27.99 (paper), ISBN 978-0-521-79729-0; $84.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-521-79324-7.
Tracy Fessenden. Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. x + 337 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-691-04963-2.
Reviewed by Finbarr Curtis (Department of Religion, Bucknell University) Published on H-Amstdy (July, 2008)
Jeffrey Ogbonna Green Ogbar. Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 236 pp. $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7006-1547-6.
Reviewed by Imani K. Johnson (Department of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California) Published on H-Amstdy (July, 2008)
The Really Real: Terms of Authenticity in Rap Music
