Main group 1

American History

• Hoxie, Frederick E., A final promise: the campaign to assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2002Compulsory*
• Roediger, David R., Working toward whiteness: how America's immigrants became white: the strange journey from Ellis Island to the suburbs, New York, Basic books, 2005Compulsory*
• Smallwood, Stephanie E., Saltwater slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2007Compulsory*

American Politics

• 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*

American Mass Media

The course reading is compiled in a compendium supplied by the department.

American 20th-Century Literature

• 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