Main group 1

• Nobles, Gregory H., American frontiers: cultural encounters and continental conquest, New York, Hill & Wang, 1998Compulsory*
• Stephanson, Anders, Manifest destiny: American expansionism and the empire of right, New York, Hill and Wang, 1996Compulsory*
• Horsman, Reginald, Race and manifest destiny: the origins of American racial Anglo-Saxonism, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U.P., 1981Compulsory*

• McKenna, George.; Feingold, Stanley, Taking sides.: clashing views on political issues, 16th ed., Boston, MA, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2013Compulsory* (18th edition)
• Schier, Steven E.; Eberly, Todd E., American government and popular discontent: stability without successCompulsory*
• Zakaria, Fareed., The post-American world: release 2.0, New York, W. W. Norton, c2011Compulsory*

• Benshoff, Harry M.; Griffin, Sean., America on film: representing race, class, gender, and sexuality at the movies, 2nd ed., Chichester, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Compulsory* (About half the book will be studied.)

Articles

• Williams, Tennessee; Browne, E. Martin, A streetcar named desire, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2009Compulsory*
• Lee, Harper, To kill a mockingbird, London, Vintage, 2004Compulsory*
• Morrison, Toni, Beloved, London, Vintage Books, 2005Compulsory*
• Villanueva, Tino, Scene from the movie Giant, 1. ed., Willimantic, CT, Curbstone Press, 1993Compulsory*
• Foer, Jonathan Safran, Everything is illuminated, Penguin Books Ltd., 2003Compulsory*
• Hamid, Mohsin, The reluctant fundamentalist, [New ed.], London, Penguin, 2008Compulsory*

Ginsburg, Allen. "Howl", "A Supermarket in California", "America" (handout)

Cisneros, Sandra. "Never Marry a Mexican" (handout)

* Compulsory