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Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez (2019)
Book Chapter
Lewthwaite, S. (2019). Traumatic memory in the art of Freddy Rodriguez. In D. Göttsche (Ed.), Memory and postcolonial studies: synergies and new directions (187-213). Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/b14024

Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South (2019)
Book Chapter
Miller, V. (2019). Hanging, the Electric Chair, and Death Penalty Reform in the Early Twentieth-Century South. In A. L. Wood, & N. J. Ring (Eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South. University of Illinois Press

This chapter focuses on the transition from hanging to electrical execution in Florida and the changing role of the sheriff as executioner in the 1920s.

The unfinished revolution: Haiti, Black sovereignty and power in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world (2019)
Book
Salt, K. (2019). The unfinished revolution: Haiti, Black sovereignty and power in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvt6rjmr

The Unfinished Revolution: Haiti, Black Sovereignty and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World addresses post-revolutionary (and contemporary) sovereignty in Haiti. Working through an archive of black politics, The Unfinished Revolution exami... Read More about The unfinished revolution: Haiti, Black sovereignty and power in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.

The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962 (2019)
Journal Article
McGarr, P. M. (2020). The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962. Journal of Strategic Studies, 42(5), 626-653. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2019.1570147

© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines British responses to the Sino-Indian border war of 1962. It illustrates how, in the years leading up to the war, Britain’s colonial legacy in the Indian subcontinen... Read More about The long shadow of colonial cartography: Britain and the Sino-Indian war of 1962.

Introduction--Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship (2018)
Book Chapter
Roberts, G. (2018). Introduction--Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel: Negotiating Material Citizenship. In G. Roberts (Ed.), Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel (3-37). McGill-Queen's Unversity Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv941x2b.5

The Communist Party (2018)
Book Chapter
Phelps, C. (2018). The Communist Party. In I. Takayoshi (Ed.), American Literature in Transition: The 1930s (421-435). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108563895.023

In the Great Depression, numerous American writers and intellectuals were attracted to the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA). This chapter provides an institutional analysis of that political-literary experience, arguing that i... Read More about The Communist Party.

Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi (2018)
Book Chapter
Roberts, G. (2018). Cross-Border Film Adaptation and Life of Pi. In Reading between the Borderlines: Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel (225-242). McGill-Queen's University Press

Susan Ryan. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace (2018)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2019). Susan Ryan. The Moral Economies of American Authorship: Reputation, Scandal, and the Nineteenth-Century Marketplace. Review of English Studies, 70(294), 380-382. https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgy109

A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery (2018)
Journal Article
Nicholson, A., Dang, M., & Trodd, Z. (2018). A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery. Human Rights Law Review, 18(4), 689-704. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngy032

© 2018 The Author(s). This article examines key debates on the legal definition of slavery from the perspective of survivors. This group has previously not been included in the debates on slavery definitions. By drawing upon new interviews we have co... Read More about A full freedom: Contemporary survivors' definitions of slavery.

Women who work: the limits of the Neoliberal feminist paradigm (2018)
Journal Article
ROTTENBERG, C. (2018). Women who work: the limits of the Neoliberal feminist paradigm. Gender, Work and Organization, https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12287

This article examines Ivanka Trump's Women Who Work, arguing that it represents the newest permutation of the neoliberal feminist subject. After providing an overview of the recent emergence of neoliberal feminism, I explain why the book should be co... Read More about Women who work: the limits of the Neoliberal feminist paradigm.

The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism (2018)
Book
Rottenberg, C. (2018). The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190901226.001.0001

Through an in-depth analysis of bestselling “how-to-succeed” books along with popular television shows and well-trafficked “mommy” blogs, The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been inc... Read More about The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism.

The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition (2018)
Journal Article
Asquith, W. (2018). The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition. Historical Research, 91(253), 528-553. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12232

© 2018 Institute of Historical Research. This article explores how representatives of the Caribbean’s first postcolonial state undertook the project of displaying Haitian nationhood during the age of empire. It challenges current understandings of Ha... Read More about The art of postcolonial politics in the age of empire: Haiti’s object lesson at the World’s Columbian Exposition.

Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins (2018)
Journal Article
Pearce, R. (2018). Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins. Journal of American Studies, 53(3), 683-702. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021875818000476

J. H. Wilkins, an African American railroad porter for the Pullman Company, was killed while on duty in April 1930. How he met his death has never been fully determined, but the Pullman Company’s investigation file exposes the dangerous and racialise... Read More about Murder on the Kansas City Special? Pullman Porters, Emotions, and the Strange Case of J. H. Wilkins.

The seriality dividend of American magazines (2018)
Journal Article
Thompson, G. (2018). The seriality dividend of American magazines. American Periodicals, 28(1),

This essay argues that the preconsumption cycle of material creation and supply exerted powerful effects as periodicals journeyed from paper mill to reader. So powerful were these effects that they generated a “seriality dividend,” or a return on fin... Read More about The seriality dividend of American magazines.

Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s (2018)
Journal Article
Phelps, C. (2018). Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 15(1), 25-51. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-4288647

Between the First and Second World Wars, Heywood Broun (1888-1939) and Benjamin Stolberg (1891-1951) were labor journalists when the newspaper industry was consolidating into chains and industrial unionism was gaining in American society. A compariso... Read More about Heywood Broun, Benjamin Stolberg, and the politics of American labor journalism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Herman Melville: among the magazines (2018)
Book
Thompson, G. (2018). Herman Melville: among the magazines. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America (2017)
Book Chapter
Pethers, M. (2017). Transportation narratives: servants, convicts, and the literature of colonization in British America. In N. Coles, & P. Lauter (Eds.), A History of American-Working Class Literature (7-24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316216439.002

Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned? (2017)
Book Chapter
Ling, P. (2017). Nonviolence Crowned or Dethroned?. In J. Street, & H. K. Lozano (Eds.), The Shadow of Selma. University of Florida Press

Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer (2017)
Journal Article
Ling, P. (2017). Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer. Comparative American Studies, 15(1-2), 72-90. https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2017.1411829

The arrest of James Earl Ray at London Airport on 8 June 1968 marked the final stage of an international manhunt that had begun with the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. on 4 April. Arrested for travelling on a false passport and with an unlicensed f... Read More about Ray watching: the highly protected, British prison experience of Martin Luther King’s killer.

The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election (2017)
Journal Article
Sewell, B. (2017). The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 28(4), 619-645. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2017.1386450

This article uses the case of the 1956 presidential election between Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower to highlight the ways that an obsession with foreign relations could, in fact, prove problematic to a campaign. Focusing primarily on Stevenson... Read More about The political perils of Cold War foreign relations: Adlai Stevenson’s democrats and foreign policy in the 1956 presidential election.