American Studies B
30 credits
Reading list, Bachelor's level, 5EN751
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
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
Scanned materials and online resources may be added.
Current Issues in American Politics
- Briggs, Laura, How all politics became reproductive politics: from welfare reform to foreclosure to Trump, Oakland, University of California Press, [2017]Compulsory
- Denvir, Daniel., All-American Nativism, Verso Books, 2020Compulsory
- Desmond, Matthew, Poverty, by America, [London], Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2023Compulsory
- Alba, Richard D., The great demographic illusion: majority, minority, and the expanding American mainstream / Richard Alba, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Excerpts. Digitally available or provided by teacher.)
- Grossmann, Polarized by Degrees: How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2024Compulsory
- Gilmore, Ruth Wilson, Abolition geography: essays towards liberation, London, Verso, 2023Compulsory
- Marietta, Morgan; Barker, David C., One nation, two realities: dueling facts in American democracy, New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2019Compulsory (Excerpts. Digitally available or provided by teacher.)
- Schlozman, Daniel; Rosenfeld, Sam, The hollow parties: the many pasts and disordered present of American party politics, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, [2024]Compulsory
- Sides, John, The Bitter End: The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy / John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, Chris Tausanovitch, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- Ziegler, Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2020Compulsory
Scanned materials and online resources may be added.
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
- Landsberg, Alison, Engaging the past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge / Alison Landsberg, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory (Selected chapters.)
- 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.)
- Melish, Joanne, "Recovering (from) Slavery: Four Struggles to Tell the Truth", Part of: Slavery and public history [electronic resource]: the tough stuff of American memory / edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- 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.)
Scanned materials and online resources may be added
Current Research in American Studies
- Chakrabarty, D, The Climate of History: Four Theses., Part of: Critical inquiry., vol. 35, no. 2, 2009, p. 197–222Compulsory
- Gould, Stephen Jay, The Golden Rule: A Proper Scale for Our Environmental Crisis, Part of: The Earth Around Us: Maintaining A Livable Planet / Jill Schneiderman, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- LeMenager, Stephanie, Petro-Melancholia, Part of: Qui parle: critical humanities and social sciencesCompulsory
- Patel, Raj, A history of the world in seven cheap things: a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet / Jason W. Moore, Raj Patel, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, The mushroom at the end of the world [electronic resource]: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory
- Whyte, Kyle Powys, On the Role of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as a Collaborative Concept, Part of: Ecological processes, https:/
/ Compulsoryecologicalprocesses.springeropen.com/ articles/ 10.1186/ 2192-1709-2-7 - Williams, Raymond, Problems in materialism and culture: selected essays, London, Verso, cop. 1980Compulsory ("Ideas of Nature", pp. 67–85.)
First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, "Principles of
Environmental Justice," Washington, DC, 1991. Online resource.
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, 2022, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/.
Scanned materials and online resources may be added
* Compulsory