Jose Alamillo

Extended Syllabus on U.S. Imperialism

(Updated 9/05/06):

Old and New Directions in American Studies
-Gene Wise, “Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement,” American Quarterly 31 (1979
-Allen F. Davis, “The Politics of American Studies” American Quarterly 42 (1990), 3-21.
-Janice Radway, “What’s in a Name?” (ASA Presidential Address, 1998) (Download Word File)
- Amy Kaplan, “Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today”
(ASA Presidential Address, 2003) 
- 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)

Theoretical Discussions on "Imperialism"
-V.I. Lenin, "Imperialism: The Highest State of Capitalism"
-Patrick Wolfe, "History and Imperialism" A Century of Theory, from Marx to Postcolonialism"
-Gareth Stedman Jones "The History of U.S. Imperialism"
-Raul Fernandez and Jose Ocampo, "The Latin American Revolution: A Theory of Imperialism, Not Dependence" Latin American Perspectives (Spring 1974)
-Radical History Review, Special Issue:"Imperialism: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis"
(Fall 1993)
-Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1993)
-Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000)
-Harry Magdoff, Imperialism Withouth Colonies (Monthly Review Press,2003)
-John Bellamy Foster, Naked Imperialism: the U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (2006)

Historical Writings on "Imperialism"
-R.W. Van Alstyne, The Rising American Empire (1960)
-Walter LaFeber, The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860-1898 (1963)
-Rubin Francis Weston Racism in U.S. Imperialism (1972)
-William Appleman Williams, Empire As a Way of Life (1980)
-Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire, 1875-1914 (1987)
-Chalmers Johnson, Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire (2000)

U. S. Imperialism and Nation-building
American Indian Nations
-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)
-Shari Huhndorf, "Imagining America: Race, Nation, and Imperialism at the Turn of the Century" in Going Native (Cornell University Press, 2001)
- Richard Slotkin, "Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Mythologization of the American Empire" in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
-Walter Williams, “United States Indian Policy and the Debate over Philippine Annexation: Implications for the Origins of American Imperialism, ”Journal of American History (March 1980).

Philippines
Video: “Savage Acts” (25 minutes)
-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) (Philippines)
-Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish –American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale University Press, 1998).

Cuba
-Amy Kaplan, “Black and Blue on San Juan Hill” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993) (Cuba)
Film: Crucible of Empire (60 Minutes)

Hawaii
- Adria Imada, “Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire”American Quarterly, 56 (March 2004)
-Noenroe, K. Silva, Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2003)
Video: Hawaii's Last Queen ( 60 minutes)

Puerto Rico
- Christina D. Burnett and Burke Marshall, Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Puerto Rico, American Expansion and the Constitution (Duke University Press, 2001)
-Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2002)
-Eileen J. Suarez Findlay, Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920 (Duke University Press, 1999)
-Kelvin Santiago-Valles, 'Subject People' and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898-1947 (State University of New York Press, 1994)
-Pedro Caban, Constructing a Colonial People (Westview Press, 1999)
Video: Mi Puerto Rico (90 minutes)

Mexico
-Gilbert Gonzalez and Raul Fernandez, "Empire and the Origins of 20th Century Migration from Mexico to the United States Pacific Historical Review (2002)
-Christopher Wilson , “Plotting the Border: John Reed, Pancho Villa, and Insurgent Mexico ” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
-Gilber Gonzalez, Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930 (University of Texas Press, 2004)
Video: Maquila: A Tale of Two Mexicos (55 minutes)
Video: The Hunt for Pancho Villa (56 minutes)

U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
-Jose David Saldivar, "Americo Paredes and Decolonization" in in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993) (Cuba)
- José Limon, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, United States and the Erotics of Culture (Beacon Press, 1998)
-Rosalinda Fregoso, MeXicana Encounters: The Making of Social Identities on the Borderlands (2003)
-Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, eds. Continental Crossroads: Remapping the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History (Duke University Press, 2004)
Video: Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (104 minutes)

Samoa
-Damon Salesa,"Samoa's Half-Castes and Some Frontiers of Comparison” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)

Intimacies of Empire
-Ann Laura Stoler, “Intimidations of Empire: Predicaments of the Tactile and Unseen” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
-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)
Video: Sin City Diary (29 minutes)
-Martha Hodes, “Fractions and Fictions in the United States Census of 1890”
in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
- Laura Briggs, “Making ‘America’ Families: Transnational Adoption and U.S. Latin American Policy” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
Video: Discovering Dominga (60 minutes)
- 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)
Video: Granito de Arena (90 minutes)
-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)
- Nayan Shah, “Adjudicating Intimacies on U.S. Frontiers” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)
-Linda Gordon, “Internal Colonialism and Gender” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed. Haunted By Empire (Duke University, 2006)

Domestic Imperialism
Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation : Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920( University Of Chicago Press, 2005)
Website: http://www.newmexicohistory.org/

Recommended:
-Amy Kaplan, "Manifest Domesticity" American Literature (1998)

Gender and Imperialism
-Imperialism and gender : constructions of masculinity edited by Christopher E. Gittings.
-Married to the empire : gender, politics and imperialism in India, 1883-1947 by Mary A. Procida
-Of property and propriety : the role of gender and class in imperialism and nationalism edited by Himani Bannerji, Shahrzad Mojab, and Judith Whitehead
- Gender and imperialism edited by Clare Midgley.
- The legacy of colonialism : gender and cultural identity in postcolonial societies by Máire ní Fhlathúin
-Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War by Robin L. Riley and Naeem Inayatullah

Imperialism and Immigration
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America  (Princeton, University Press, 2004)

Recommended:
-Catherine Ceniza Choy, Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History (Duke University Press, 2003)
-Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 1996)
-Aihwa Ong Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (University of California Press, 2003)

Imperialism, the U.S. Military and Militarization of Women's Bodies
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in American (New York University Press, 2002)
Video: Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (88 minutes)
Video: Camp Arirang (28 minutes)

Imperialism and the U.S. Media
Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 (University of California Press, 2001)

Imperialism and U.S. Sports
-Allen Guttman, Games and Empires (Columbia University Press, 1996)
-Gerald Gems, Athletic Crusade: Sport and American Cultural Imperialism (University of Nebraska Press, 2006)

Resisting Imperialism/Decolonizing America
Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Recommended:
- Kevin Gaines, “Black American’ Racial Uplift Ideology as ‘Civilizing Mission’”
in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
- William Cain, “From Liberalism to Communism: the Political Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois” in Cultures of United States Imperialism (Duke University Press, 1993)
-Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2000)
-Laura Pulido Black, Brown, Yellow, and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2006)

Arts and Cultures of Resistance
-Michael Denning The Cultural Front (Verso, 1997)
- 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)

Recommended:
-Michael Denning, “The Special American Conditions” Marxism and American Studies” American Quarterly (1986)
-George Lipsitz ‘Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today’: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements” Cultural Critique 40 (Fall, 1998)