American Studies B

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Global American History

• Gabaccia, Donna R., Foreign relations: American immigration in global perspective, Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, c2012Compulsory* (Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Hoganson, Kristin L., The heartland: an American history, New York, Penguin Books, 2020Compulsory*
• Holsti, Ole R, To see ourselves as others see us: how publics abroad view the United States after 9/11, 2008Compulsory* (E-book through UUB.)
• Immerwahr, Daniel, How to Hide an Empire: a Short History of the Greater United States, London, The Bodley Head, 2019Compulsory*

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Current Issues in American Politics

• Alba, The Great Demographic Illusion, Princeton University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• Putnam, Robert D., Our kids: the American dream in crisis, New York, Simon & Schuster, 2015Compulsory*
• Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory*
• Marietta, Morgan; Barker, David C., One nation, two realities: dueling facts in American democracy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019Compulsory*
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, We Were Eight Years in Power, Penguin, 2018Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck, The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2022). Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.

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Memory and Heritage in American Culture

• Bruyneel, Kevin, Settler memory: the disavowal of indigeneity and the politics of race in the United States, Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, [2021]Compulsory*
• Cox, Karen L., No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Gordon, Tammy S., The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Janney, Caroline E., Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, The University of North Carolina Press, 2013Compulsory*
• Lepore, Jill, The whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history, Princeton, Princeton University Press, cop. 2010Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Horton, James Oliver, Slavery and public history: the tough stuff of American memory, 2006Compulsory* (Chapter 6: "Recovering (from) Slavery: Four Struggles to Tell the Truth". E-book through UUB.)
• Meringolo, Denise D., Museums, monuments, and national parks: toward a new genealogy of public history, 2012Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Savage, Kirk, Monument wars: Washington, D.C., the National Mall, and the transformation of the memorial landscape, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California, University of California Press, 2011Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Sturken, Marita, Tourists of history: memory, kitsch, and consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero, Durham, Duke University Press, 2007Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)

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Current Research in American Studies

• Abdurraqib, Hanif, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Bradley, Regina N., Chronicling Stankonia: the rise of the hip hop South / Regina N. Bradley, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (1–18)
• The Oxford handbook of music and queerness / edited by Fred Everett Maus and Sheila Whiteley. [electronic resource], uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Gabbard, Krin, Hotter than that: the trumpet, jazz, and American culture, First edition, New York, Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008Compulsory* (Chapter 3, 70–106.)
• Miller, Karl Hagstrom, Segregating sound [electronic resource]: inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow / Karl Hagstrom Miller, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 6, 187–214.)
• Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 6, 246–276.)
• Hubbs, Nadine, Rednecks, queers, and country music / Nadine Hubbs, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 3, 107–130.)
• Hunter, Tera W., To 'joy my freedom: Southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 7, 145–167.)
• Wells, Christi Jay, Between beats: the jazz tradition and black vernacular dance / Christi Jay Wells, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Chapter 3, 61–108.)
• Lordi, Emily J., The meaning of soul: black music and resilience since the 1960s, Durham, Duke University Press, 2020Compulsory* (1–18)
• Lott, Eric, The Seeming Counterfeit, Part of: American quarterly, vol. 43, no. 2, 1991, p. 223–254, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2712925Compulsory*
• Mahon, Maureen, Black diamond queens: African American women and rock and roll, Durham, Duke University Press, [2020]Compulsory* (Chapter 2, 52–75.)
• Marcus, Greil, Mystery train: images of America in rock 'n' roll music, Sixth revised edition., New York, Plume, 2015Compulsory* (Chapter 6.)
• McCracken, Alison, 'God's Gift to Us Girls': Crooning, Gender, and the Re-Creation of American Popular Song, 1928-1933, Part of: American music, vol. 17, no. 4, 1999, p. 365–395, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052656Compulsory*
• Molanphy, Chris, Old town road / Chris Molanphy, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Morrison, Matthew D., Race, Blacksound, and the (Re)Making of Musicological Discourse, Part of: Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 72, no. 3, 2019, p. 781–823, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26908096Compulsory*

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* Compulsory