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Course Readings: (last updated 9/05/06)
1) Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
2) Ann Stoler, ed. Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (Duke University Press, 2006)
3) Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation : Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920( University Of Chicago Press, 2005)
4) Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, University Press, 2004)
5) Ji-Yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in American (New York University Press, 2002).
6) Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (University of California Press, 2001)
7) Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004)
8) T. V. Reed, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
Reading Schedule:
PART 1: Old and New Directions in American Studies
Wednesday, August 23, 2006 (Download PDF files)
1) Allen F. Davis, “The Politics of American Studies” American Quarterly 42 (1990), 3-21.
2) Janice Radway, “What’s in a Name?” (ASA Presidential Address, 1998) (Download Word File)
3) Amy Kaplan, “Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today”
(ASA Presidential Address, 2003)
4) Amy Kaplan, “Left Along with America: The Absence of Empire in the Study of American Culture” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993
PART 2: U. S. Imperialism and Nation-building
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Video: “Savage Acts” (25 minutes)
1)Eric Cheyfitz, "Savage Law: The Plot Against American Indians in Johnson and Graham's Lessee v. M'Intosh and the Pioneers" in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
2)Vicente Rafael, White Love: Surveillance and Nationalist Resistance in the U.S. Colonization of the Philippines” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
3) Amy Kaplan, “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
Wednesday, September 6, 2006
1)
Adria Imada, “Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire”American Quarterly, 56 (March 2004) (Download PDF File)
2) Christina D. Burnett and Burke Marshall, “Between the Foreign and the Domestic: The Doctrine of Territorial Incorporation, Invented and Reinvented” and Juan Perea,"Fulfilling Manifest Destiny: Conquest, Race, and the Insular Cases," in Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion and the Constitution (Duke University Press, 2001)
(Available in CES Dept.)
3) Jose David Saldivar, "Americo Paredes and Decolonization " in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993) (Margo Tamez)
Part 3: Intimacies of Empire
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
1) Ann Laura Stoler, “Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006) (Purba Das)
2) Damon Salesa,"Samoa's Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
3) Paul A. Kramer, “The Darkness that Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution during the Philippine-American War” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006) (Sompathana Phitsanoukanh)
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
1)Martha Hodes, “Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890”
in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
2) Laura Briggs, “Making ‘America’ Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin American Policy” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006) (Katherine Ericsson)
3) Alexandra Minna Stern, “An Empire of Texts: Psychometrics and the Paradoxes of Nationalism in the Americas” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
(Erika Abad)
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
1) Tiya Miles, "His Kingdom for a Kiss': Indians and Intimacy in the Narrative of John Marrant" in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006) (Michelle Jack)
2) Nayan Shah, “Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
3) Linda Gordon, “Internal Colonialism and Gender” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006) (Regina McMenomy)
PART 4: Domestic Imperialism
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation : Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920( University Of Chicago Press, 2005) (Marquita Bberman and Josue Estrada)
Website: www.newmexicohistory.org
PART 5: Imperialism and Immigration
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
-Gilbert Gonzalez and Raul Fernandez, "Empire and the Origins of 20th Century Migration from Mexico to the United States Pacific Historical Review (2002) (PDF File)
-Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, University Press, 2004) Parts 1 & 2 (Marisol Badilla)
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton, University Press, 2004) Parts 3 & 4
Video: Farmingville
(excerpt)
PART 6: Imperialism and the Militarization of Women's Bodies
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in American (New York University Press, 2002) (Ayano Ginoza and Xuan Nguyen)
PART 7 : Imperialism and the U.S. Media
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (University of California Press, 2001)(Stephen Bischoff)
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (University of California Press, 2001) (Tricia Cox and Hala Abu Taleb)
PART 7: Resisting Empire and Decolonizing America
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004) (Ali Abdul-Aziz, Tami Moore and Frank King)
Thanksgiving Break: November 20-24th, 2006
PART 9: Art and Cultures of Resistance
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
T.V. Reed, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (University of Minnesota Press, 2005) (Martin Boston)
BOOK REVIEW DUE
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
T.V. Reed, The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle (University of Minnesota Press, 2005)
Final Examination Week: December 11-15th, 2006
Final Project DUE December 15th, 2006