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{"title":"The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives. By Mura, David, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 292 pp. ISBN: 978-1-51-791454-7","authors":"Yuan Huang","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13624","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"133-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964–2020By Patrice D. Rankine (ed.), Ann Arbor: Lever Press/Michigan Publishing Services. 2024. 315 pp. $25.99. (Paperback). ISBN: 978-1-64-315059-8","authors":"Robert W. Cape Jr","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Petrochemical Fantasies: The Art and Energy of American Comics. By Worden Daniel, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2024. 212 pp. ISBN: 978-0814259184","authors":"Andrew Kettler","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13623","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"131-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures. By D. Berton Emerson, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024. 250 pp. ISBN: 978-1-46-967840-5","authors":"Kurt Edward Milberger","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13622","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"129-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gendered Defenders: Marvel's Heroines in Transmedia SpacesBy Bryan J. Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen, Columbus: Ohio University Press, 2022. 216 pp. ISBN: 978-0-81-425852-1","authors":"Sandra Eckard","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Scientist in Popular Culture: Playing God and Working WondersBy Janicker Rebecca (ed.), Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 236 pp. $45.00 (eBook) $111.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-1-79-363303-3","authors":"Christian K. Anderson","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13618","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"122-123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary WarBy John Ferling, New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. 532 pp. $40.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978-1-63973-015-5","authors":"Daniel P. Murphy","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13617","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13617","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"120-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}