August 26, 2011

Selected New Books

Some new scholarly books in law and humanities:

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of Popular Culture, 1890-1930 (Raleigh: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).

Chakkalakal, Tess, Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011).

Jones, Paul Christian, Against the Gallows: Antebellum American Writers and the Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment (Ames: University of Iowa Press, 2011).


A Little Solitaire: John Frankenheimer and American Film (Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer, eds.; Rutgers University Press, 2011). 


Markovitz, Jonathan, Racial Spectacles: Explorations in Media, Race, and Justice (Routledge, 2011).

Montell, William Lynwood, Tales From Kentucky Sheriffs (University Press of Kentucky, 2011).  

Reframing Rights: Bioconstitutionalism in the Genetic Age (Sheila Janasoff, ed.; Cambridge,  MIT Press, 2011). 






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