This year’s Review—“Fantastic Futurisms: Institutions, Definitions, Deviations”—works to remind us that the E3W Review of Books refers not to a place but to a project. Projects, by definition, are oriented toward the future: they are built on the belief that the world can be not just different but better. Yet they also, first, require that assessment of the world extant—how it is now, and how it came to be this way. The reviews collected here do that work, providing reassessments of the past, characterizations of the present, and imaginings of a better future. 

In applying those same lessons to the work of the E3W Collective itself, we have again united the E3W Review of Books and the 2025 Sequels Symposium under the same title. Insofar as much of our work is centered on solidarity and coalition-building—in much the same way as the Third World sought to organize itself to resist the influences of the First and Second World—we recognize the value of ensuring both halves of E3W are in dialogue. To that end, we are delighted that this year’s shared theme celebrates the works of our Sequels Symposium keynote speakers, Dr. Jenna N. Hanchey (PhD Communications 2017) and Dr. Emily Bloom (PhD English 2012). 

Table of Contents (pages correspond with print version)

Editorial Board

Editorial Introduction: “Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed” 

Edited by KEVIN GIBBS and PAIGE WELSH                             7

Culture and Aesthetics

Edited by KERRI KILMER and RACHEL SPENCER                           12
T LIMRevolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture by Marcos Gonsalez13
ALEX KEITHFor Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability edited by Jill Dawsey and Isabel Casso14
JESSICA PEÑA TORRESChoreographing Mexico: Festive Performances and Dancing Histories of a Nation by Manuel R. Cuellar16
SAMANTHA CEBALLOSLatinx TV in the Twenty-First Century edited by Frederick Luis Aldama18

American Empire

Edited by LAUREN BELLATTI and I. B. HOPKINS                               21
GIULIA A. OPREASpeculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. Carroll23
CHAPMAN MATISThe Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut by Benjamin Studebaker24
MARY FONSBlood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art by Keiko Lane26
JO HURTAll of Us or None: Migrant Organizing in an Era of Deportation and Dispossession by Monisha Das Gupta28

Indigenous Histories: Reevaluating the Past and Assessing the Present

Edited by COURTNEY WELU30
LAUREN BELLATTIKilling Over Land: Murder and Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier by Robert M. Owens31
JAMES BEZOTTEOur History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes32
COURTNEY WELUPreoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum edited by Dare Turner and Leila Grothe34
PAIGE WELSHAnarchy and the Art of Listening: The Politics and Pragmatics of Reception in Papua New Guinea by James Slotta36

Earthly Entanglements                                              

Edited by RIANNA TURNER39
MICHAEL MASONIn A Few Minutes Before Later by Brenda Hillman41
HALLEY ROBERTSThe Politics of Love: Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman by Carla Christina Hustak42
MICHAEL VACLAVClimate of Denial: Darwin, Climate Change, and the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century by Allen MacDuffie43
NATHANIEL WACHTELThe Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by Brett Christophers46
ALLISON PUJOLThe Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna Hanchey48
JUNIKA HAWKER-THOMPSONGlobal Guyana: Shaping Race, Gender, and Environment in the Caribbean and Beyond by Oneka LaBennett49

Education and Pedagogy

Edited by JO HURT52
AUTUMN REYESdear elia: letters from the Asian American abyss by Mimi Khúc54
ALYSSA NICOLE FISHERCreating Our Own Lives: College Students with Intellectual Disability edited by Michael Gill and Beth Myer56
ALEXANDER J. HOLTOn Blackness, Liveliness, and What it Means to Be Human: Towards Black Specificity in Higher Education by Wilson Kwamogi Okello58
ELIANE QUINTILIANO NASCIMENTOBlack Feminist Writing: A Practical Guide to Publishing Academic Books by Stephanie Y. Evans60
DANIEL DAWERDesigned to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding is So Hard to Achieve by Roseann Liu62

Incarceration and Biopower

Edited by WESTON LEO RICHEY64
QIANQIAN LICrip Genealogies edited by Mel Y. Chen et al.66
ISABELLA NEUBAUERPostracial Fantasies and Zombies: On the Racist Apocalyptic Politics Devouring the World by Eric King Watts67
WESTON LEO RICHEYFreak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance edited by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson et al.69
FRANCESCA PASSASEOCare: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen71
CARLEE A. BAKERI Cannot Control Everything Forever: A Memoir of Motherhood, Science, and Art by Emily C. Bloom73

Race and Identity

Edited by MIA BAÑUELOS76
MONTÉZ JENNINGSHow We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory by Jennifer C. Nash  78
ETHEN PEÑALeft Turns in Brown Study by Sandra Ruiz  80
ISAAC DWYERThe Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran by Beeta Baghoolizadeh   81
FLORIDELL BERRYAsia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century by Sugata Bose   83
NISHANT UPADHYAYThe Evolution of Pragmatism in India: An Intellectual Biography of B.R. Ambedkar by Scott R. Stroud85
JUMI KIMOrdinary Notes by Christina Sharpe87

Borders, Structures and Disruptions

Edited by HAMNA SHAHZAD, ALLYSA TELLEZ, SAM TURNER, and TRENT WINTERMEIER90
I. B. HOPKINSCarmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera’s Most Famous Character by Jennifer M. Wilks  92
NINA KIRKEGAARDSeúl, São Paulo by Gabriel Mamani Magne  94
MIA BAÑUELOSTrafficking Rhetoric: Race, Migration, and the Making of Modern-Day Slavery by Annie Hill   95
NINA GARYEngland’s Jews: Finance, Violence, and the Crown in the Thirteenth Century by John Tolan   97
MYLES JOYCEIncommunicable: Toward Communicative Justice in Health and Medicine by Charles L. Briggs99
CONTRIBUTORS     102