A new issue of Americana is out. Victor C. Romero (PSU): Decriminalizing Border Crossings. Drury D. Stevenson (South Texas): Two Thought Experiments on Immigration Reform. From Granta, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera discusses the hispanicisation of the US. Jamie Winders (Syracuse) and Barbara Ellen Smith (VPI): New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South. Celebrating secession without the slaves: As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War gets under way, some are planning to celebrate the days of secession. Stephanie McCurry on the Confederacy, America's worst idea. If the media want to focus on embarrassing frisks, they should look at what black and Hispanic Americans routinely deal with, courtesy of the police department. Algeria Ford (Louisville): The Myth of Tribal Sovereignty: An Analysis of Native American Tribal Status in the United States. A review of Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans. Crime is rampant, the cops and courts are a joke — that's why residents of Oklahoma's Indian nations turn to a bruiser-for-hire like Ruben. A review of In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided by Walter R. Echo-Hawk. Thanksgiving guilt trip: How warlike were Native Americans before Europeans showed up? From Time, an article on Arab-Americans as Detroit's unlikely saviors. Make like the Jews: Everything that is currently being said about America’s vast and diverse Muslim population — that they are “foreign and exotic and un-American” — was said about Jewish immigrants nearly a century ago. A review of Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth About the "Real" America by Dante Chinni and James Gimpel (and more).
