"Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime is a timely and important volume for anyone who— scholar or citizen—wishes to understand the calamity of our neoliberal, casino financial system and the outlook for true democracy in the U.S. today. Though born of a very particular historical moment, the volume will be of enduring significance for the snapshot it gives of the state of the art in American Studies. Here is interdisciplinary, politically committed scholarship in full blossom—as significant for its moment as a volume like Kaplan and Pease's Cultures of U.S. Imperialism was for its own."