Main group 1

American History

• Tyrrell, Ian R., Transnational nation: United States history in global perspective since 1789, Second edition., New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Compulsory*
• Black, Megan, Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, 2018Compulsory*
• Immerwahr, Daniel, How to hide an empire: a short history of the greater United States, London, The Bodley Head, an imprint of Vintage, 2019Compulsory*
• Holsti, Ole R, To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11, 2008Compulsory*

In addition, selected texts online, in Studium and photocopied material.

American Politics

• Alba, The Great Demographic Illusion, Princeton University Press, 2020Compulsory* (Selected chapters are read.)
• Frey, William H., Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics are Remaking America, Brookings Institution Press, 2014Compulsory* (Selected chapters are read.)
• Jones, Robert P., The end of White Christian America, First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition., New York, Simon & Schuster, 2016Compulsory* (Selected chapters are read.)
• Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory*
• John Sides, Identity Crisis, Princeton University Press, 2018Compulsory*

In addition, selected texts online, in Studium and photocopied material.

American 20th-Century Literature

Other editions may be used.

• Cather, Willa; Rosowski, Susan J.; Ronning, Kari, A Lost lady, Lincoln, Neb., University of Nebraska Press, 1997Compulsory*
• Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Scribner trade paperback edition., New York, Scribner, 2004Compulsory*
• Toomer, Jean, Cane: authoritative text, New York, Liveright, 2011Compulsory*
• Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony, [New ed.], Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986Compulsory* (New edition 2020.)
• Morrison, Toni, Sula, New York, Vintage International, 2004, c1974Compulsory*

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl"; Hai-Dang Phan, "My Father's 'Norton Introduction to Literature,' Third Edition (1981)" (online at the Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/)

Gloria Anzaldua, "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" (handout)

American Mass Media

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

* Compulsory