14735504_7-2.qxd.goldlabel Journalof American Studıes Jou rn alofA m erican S tu d ies Volu m e 4 8 N u m b er2 M ay 2 0 1 4 p p 3 5 7 –6 8 9 Volume 48 Number 2 May 2014 Volume 48 Number 2 May 2014 Journalof American Studıes Cambridge Journals Online For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: journals.cambridge.org/ams MIX Paper from responsible sources ® ® vv EEddiittoorrss’’ NNoottee ARTICLES 335577 DDiivviiddeedd LLooyyaallttiieess iinn aa ““PPrreeddaattoorryy WWaarr””:: PPllaannttaattiioonn OOvveerrsseeeerrss aanndd SSllaavveerryy dduurriinngg tthhee AAmmeerriiccaann RReevvoolluuttiioonn LAURA SANDY 339933 ““AAllll AAmmeerriiccaa IIss aa PPrriissoonn””:: TThhee NNaattiioonn ooff IIssllaamm aanndd tthhee PPoolliittiicciizzaattiioonn ooff AAffrriiccaann AAmmeerriiccaann PPrriissoonneerrss,, 11995555––11996655 ZOE COLLEY 441177 MMoorree TThhaann aa PPaassssiivvee IInntteerreesstt NIALL PALMER 444455 ““TThhee BBeeaauuttyy ooff OOtthheerr HHoorriizzoonnss””:: SSaarrttoorriiaall SSeellff--FFaasshhiioonniinngg iinn CCllaauuddee MMccKKaayy’’ss BBaannjjoo:: AA SSttoorryy wwiitthhoouutt aa PPlloott GRAEME ABERNETHY 446611 CCrreeeeppiinngg FFoorreesstt aanndd ((DDiiss))PPllaacceedd BBooddiieess:: RReellooccaattiinngg RRaacciiaall TTrraauummaa iinn AAnnggeelliinnaa WWeelldd GGrriimmkkéé’’ss ““BBllaacckknneessss”” aanndd ““GGoollddiiee”” LINDSEY PHILLIPS 448811 TTrraannsscceennddeennttaall DDeemmooccrraaccyy:: RRaallpphh WWaallddoo EEmmeerrssoonn’’ss PPoolliittiiccaall TThhoouugghhtt,, tthhee LLeeggaaccyy ooff FFeeddeerraalliissmm,, aanndd tthhee IIrroonniieess ooff AAmmeerriiccaa’’ss DDeemmooccrraattiicc TTrraaddiittiioonn BENJAMIN E. 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Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core Contents Editors’ Note v Articles Divided Loyalties in a “Predatory War”: Plantation Overseers and Slavery during the American Revolution  LAURA SANDY “All America Is a Prison”: The Nation of Islam and the Politicization of African American Prisoners, –  ZOE COLLEY More Than a Passive Interest  NIALL PALMER “The Beauty of Other Horizons”: Sartorial Self-Fashioning in Claude McKay’s Banjo: A Story without a Plot  GRAEME ABERNETHY Creeping Forest and (Dis)Placed Bodies: Relocating Racial Trauma in Angelina Weld Grimké’s “Blackness” and “Goldie”  LINDSEY PHILLIPS Transcendental Democracy: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Political Thought, the Legacy of Federalism, and the Ironies of America’s Democratic Tradition  BENJAMIN E. PARK The International Dimension of the Federal Constitution  TOM CUTTERHAM Whither Industrial Democracy? The Federal Government and Organized Labour in the Telegraph Industry during the First World War  STEVEN PARFITT Thinking about Empire: The Administration of Ulysses S. Grant, Spanish Colonialism and the Ten Years’ War in Cuba  ANDREW PRIEST US Seizure, Exploitation, and Restitution of Saddam Hussein’s Archive of Atrocity  BRUCE P. MONTGOMERY terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core The Culture War and Issue Salience: An Analysis of American Sentiment on Traditional Moral Issues  ANDREW WROE, EDWARD ASHBEE AND AMANDA GOSLING Performative Morality: Godey’s Match Plates, Nineteenth- Century Stage Practice, and Social/Political/Economic Commentary in America’s Popular Ladies’ Magazine  CYNTHIA LEE PATTERSON Roundtable: Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy  ANN MARIE WILSON, DAVID A. HOLLINGER, STEVEN P. MILLER, ANDREW PRESTON Reviews  Reviews Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time  Jeffory A. Clymer, Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century  Andrew L. Slap and Michael Thomas Smith (eds.), This Distracted and Anarchical People: New Answers for Old Questions about the Civil War-Era North  William A. Link, Atlanta, Cradle of the New South: Race and Remembering in the Civil War’s Aftermath  Peter H. Argersinger, Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America: The Politics of Apportionment  Christine Bold, The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, –  Michael Lundblad, The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U. S. Literature and Culture  Drew Keeling, The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States  David Hollinger, After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Protestant Liberalism in Modern American History  Max Paul Friedman, Rethinking Anti-Americanism: The History of an Exceptional Concept in American Foreign Relations  Victoria W. Wolcott, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America  Landon R. Y. Storrs, The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal Left  John Burnham (ed.), After Freud Left: A Century of Psychoanalysis in America  Darryl Jones, Elizabeth McCarthy, and Bernice M. Murphy (eds.), It Came from the s! Popular Culture, Popular Anxieties  Damion L. Thomas, Globetrotting: African American Athletes and Cold War Politics  Zoe A. Colley, Ain’t Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement  Matthew Levin, Cold War University: Madison and the New Left in the Sixties  Timothy Melley, The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State  Cathy Schlund-Vials, War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work  Georgiana Banita, Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture after /  terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core Electronic content Roundtable: Fredrik Logevall, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam EDWARD MILLER, JESSICA M. CHAPMAN, LOUISA RICE, MATTHEW MASUR, FREDRIK LOGEVALL Anna Mae Duane, Suffering Childhood in Early America: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim ANGELA SORBY, MONIKA ELBERT Exclusive Online Reviews The following reviews are freely available in the online version of this issue at www.journals. cambridge.org/ams Jamie Harker, Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America M. Carmen Gómez-Galisteo, Early Visions and Representations of America: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios and William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation Robert J. Cook, William L. Barney, and Elizabeth R. Varon, Secession Winter: When the Union Fell Apart Jacob Rama Berman, American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the th-Century Imaginary Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth (eds.), Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights Natalie J. Ring, The Problem South: Region, Empire, and the New Liberal State, – David E. Nye, America’s Assembly Line Thomas Doherty, Hollywood and Hitler, – Susanne Hamscha, The Fiction of America: Performance and the Cultural Imaginary in Literature and Film Aaron Lecklider, Inventing the Egghead: The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture Michael R. Auslin, Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.–Japan Relations T. Austin Graham, The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Karen Kuo, East Is West and West Is East: Gender, Culture, and Interwar Encounters between Asia and America Karen L. Cox (ed.), Destination Dixie: Tourism and Southern History Nancy Beck Young, Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II Robert L. Fleegler, Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century Thomas Devine, Henry Wallace’s  Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism Lawrence J. Friedman, assisted by Anke M. Schreiber, The Lives of Erich Fromm: Love’s Prophet Inger Stole, Advertising at War: Business, Consumers, and Government in the s Neil Verma, Theater of the Mind: Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama Ana Sobral, Opting Out: Deviance and Generational Identities in American Postwar Cult Fiction Robert E. Terrill (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Malcolm X Min Hyoung Song, The Children of : On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American William G. Howell with David Milton Brent, Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power Mérida Rúa, A Grounded Identidad: Making New Lives in Chicago’s Puerto Rican Neighborhoods Alison R. Holmes and J. Simon Rofe (eds.), The Embassy in Grosvenor terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core Square: American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, – Andrew Taylor and Áine Kelly (eds.), Stanley Cavell, Literature, and Film: The Idea of America Tessa Roynon, The Cambridge Introduction to Toni Morrison Caroline B. Brettell and Deborah Reed-Danahay, Civic Engagements: The Citizenship Practices of Indian & Vietnamese Immigrants Michael P. Jeffries, Paint the White House Black: Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core Editors’ Note From discussions of antilynching legislation to nineteenth-century stage practice, the question of morality underpins the articles in this issue of the journal. We feature articles ranging from the politicization of African American prisoners to a critique Claude McKay’s Banjo: A Story without a Plot, as well as essays on empire, organized labour, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The first five articles in the issue consider morality from the perspective of race and racial trauma in the United States, from the American Revolution to the Cold War, with essays by Zoe Colley, Niall Palmer, Graeme Abernethy, Lindsay Phillips, and Laura Sandy. Contributions by Benjamin Park, Tom Cutterham, and Stephen Parfitt invite us to consider how the theoretical underpinnings of the US political narrative can carve out a space to consider questions of morality in wartime and in diplomatic context, as in the examination by Andrew Priest of empire and colonialism and by Bruce Montgomery of Saddam Hussein’s archive of atrocity. Andrew Wroe et al. consider politics through the “culture war” and the polarization of American sentiment on moral issues, while Cynthia Patterson’s theoretical approach to nineteenth-century ladies’ magazines provides an alternative cultural interpretation of performative morality. In the review section, we feature roundtable discussions of two prize- winning books on American foreign relations. On the print side, Ann-Marie Wilson, David Hollinger, and Steven Miller give their views on Andrew Preston’s Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith, an epic account of the influence that religion has had on America’s role in the world. On the electronic side, Ed Miller, Jessica Chapman, Louisa Rice, and Matt Masur analyse Fredrik Logevall’s Embers of War, which offers a detailed examination of the first Vietnam war and charts the way that the US came to be involved in what was, effectively, a nationalist struggle against European colonialism. Following on from Embers of War, Angela Sorby and Monika Elbert examine Anna Mae Duane’s Suffering Childhood: Violence, Race, and the Making of the Child Victim, which uncovers the pivotal role constructions of childhood played in early US formulations of race and nationhood. terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. Carnegie Mellon University, on 06 Apr 2021 at 00:59:20, subject to the Cambridge Core https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000644 https://www.cambridge.org/core