American Studies B1
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN721
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
American History
- Cook, Robert, Civil War memories: contesting the past in the United States since 1865, Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017Compulsory
- Simpson, Brooks D., America's Civil War, Wheeling, IL, Harlan Davidson, cop. 1996Compulsory
Selected articles.
American Politics
- Frey, William H., Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, Brookings Institution Press, 2014Compulsory
- Jones, Robert P., The end of White Christian America, First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., New York, Simon & Schuster, 2016Compulsory
- Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory
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