Syllabus
Complete texts (please buy):
- Neil Campbell and Alistair Kean, American Cultural Studies, Fourth edition (2016)
- Paul Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction (2012)
- Lawrence Friedman, Law in America (2002)
Articles, chapters and other excerpted texts (In a two-part compendium named "ENG1506" that you can buy at Akademika):
- From Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America (2016)
- From Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016)
- From Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016)
- From Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
- Costas Panagopoulos and Aaron C. Weinschenk, “Money in Elections” from A Citizen’s Guide to US Elections (2015)
- David Mauk and John Oakland, Chapters 6 & 7: “Political Institutions: The Federal Government” and “Political Institutions: State and Local Government” in American Civilization: an Introduction (2014)
- From Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2012)
- From Corwin E. Smidt, American Evangelicals Today (2013)
- From Henry H. Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings (2004)
- From Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, third edition (2003)
- Deborah Madsen, Chapter 2: “Dispossession: Native American Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism” in American Exceptionalism (1998)
- From Jim Goad, Redneck Manifesto (1997)
- From Richard Dyer, White (1997)
- Elsa Barkley Brown, “Womanist Consciousness,” from Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women’s History, Vicki L. Ruiz, Ellen Carol Dubois, eds. (1994)
- Alice Kessler-Harris, “Providers: Gender Ideology in the 1930s,” from A Woman’s Wage (1990)
- Gloria Anzaldúa, “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness,” from Borderlands: La Frontera (1987)
- From Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (1980)
- From Simone De Beauvoir, America Day by Day (1958)
Available digitally (will be uploaded to Fronter)
- Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” (1978)
- From Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872)
- Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (1852)
- The Constitution of the United States (1787-8) https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, “Letter III from an American Farmer” (1782)
- Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks concerning the Savages of North America” (1782-3)
- Declaration of Independence (1776)
Published May 16, 2017 2:31 PM
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