American Studies Readings on Reserve, Fall 2004

I have put quite a few works on reserve at Reed Library. Please be aware that some of the following works had to be ordered, and may not have arrived yet. Although I will periodically update this list to indicate when newly-ordered books have arrived at the circulation desk, your best bet for the most up-to-date availability results is to check the list in the black book at the Circulation Desk. You can also go to the Reed Library web site for a link to the on-line catalog.

To get one of these books, go to the Circulation Desk, find the black binder marked S-Z, look up my name and course # in the binder, find the book and call # you want, and ask the attendant to get it for you (sorry, you can only take one at a time). You'll need to bring your SUNY Card to check the book out; it can't leave the library, unless you get it at the very end of the day (in which case you have to bring it back first thing in the morning or face steep fines). Please be considerate of others who may need to use the book, and return it promptly to the desk after you are done using it.

Selected Critical and Historical Studies
(all on reserve)

A. Contemporary References

• Homi Bhabha, ed., Nation and Narration
• Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival?
• Michael Denning, The Cultural Front
• Ariel Dorfman, Other Septembers, Many Americas
• Niall Ferguson, Colossus
• Raul Fernández, ed., José Martí's 'Our America': From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies
• Thomas Ferraro, Ethnic Passages: Literary Immigrants in Twentieth-Century America
• Coco Fusco, English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas
• Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield, eds., Mapping Multiculturalism
• Farah Jasmine Griffin, Who Set You Flowin'? The African-American Migration Narrative
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña, The New World Border
• Anthony Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World
• David Harvey, The New Imperialism
• Sam Haynes and Christopher Morris, eds., Manifest Destiny and Empire: American Antebellum Expansionism
• Matthew Frye Jacobson, Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States
• Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire
• Amy Kaplan, The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of American Culture
• Amy Kaplan and Donald Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism
• Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts
• Wahneema Lubiano, ed., The House That Race Built
• Lucy Maddox, ed., Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline
• Oscar Martinez, Border Peoples
• Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
• Donald Pease and Robyn Weigman, eds., The Futures of American Studies
• Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent
• Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940
• John Carlos Rowe, Literary Culture and U.S. Imperialism
• John Carlos Rowe, ed., Post-Nationalist American Studies
• Ramon Saldivar, Border Matters
• Amritjit Singh and Peter Schmidt, eds., Postcolonial Theory and the United States
• William Spanos, America's Shadow: An Anatomy of Empire
• Helen Turner, ed., The Settling of North America
• Immanuel Wallerstein, The Decline of American Power
• Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights

B. Classic References

• James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America
• American Social History Project, Who Built America?
• Jean Baudrillard, America
• Sacvan Bercovitch, The American Jeremiad
• Richard Drinnon, Facing West
• Stephen Greenblatt, ed., New World Encounters
• Oscar Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
• John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925
• Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny
• C.L.R. James, American Civilization
• Howard Mumford Jones, O Strange New World
• R.W.B. Lewis, The American Adam
• Patricia Nelson Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest
• --, The Unbroken Past
• José Martí,Our America
• Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden
• Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness
• David Noble, The End of American History
• Gary Okihiro, Common Ground
• Nell Irvin Painter, Exodusters
• Theda Perdue and Michael Green, eds., The Cherokee Removals: A Brief History with Documents
• Richard Slotkin, Regeneration through Violence
• Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land
• Werner Sollors, Beyond Ethnicity
• Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror
• William A. Williams, Empire as a Way of Life
• Howard Zinn, A People¹s History of the United States

Selected American Migration Narratives
(not on reserve)

• Mary Antin, The Promised Land
• Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
• Randall Bass and Joy Young, eds., Beyond Borders
• William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
• Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart
• Abraham Cahan, The Education of Abraham Cahan; The Rise of David Levinsky
• Willa Cather, My Ántonia
• Teresa Hak Kyung Cha, DICTÉE
• Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco
• Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
• Maryse Condè, I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
• James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers
• J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
• E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
• Helen Jackson Hunt, Ramona
• Andrea O'Reilly Herrera, The Pearl of the Antilles
• Arturo Islas, Migrant Souls
• Myra Jehlen and Michael Warner, eds., The English Literatures of America, 1500-1800
• Gish Jen, Typical American; Mona in the Promised Land; Who's Irish?
• Cynthia Kadohata, The Floating World
• Younghill Kang, East Goes West
• Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman
• Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior; China Men
• Paul Lauter, et al., eds., The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vols. 1 and 2
• Alain Locke, ed., The New Negro
• M. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
• Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds., This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
• Toni Morrison, Jazz; Paradise
• Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine; The Middleman and Other Stories; The Holder of the World
• Américo Paredes, The Hammon and the Beans and Other Stories
• Jacques Poulin, Volkswagen Blues
• Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
• Barbara Roche Rico and Sandra Mano, eds., American Mosaic: Multicultural Readings in Context
• Edward Rivera, Family Installments
• Tomás Rivera, y no se lo tragó la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
• Leslie Marmon Silko, Almanac of the Dead; Gardens in the Dunes
• Gertrude Stein, Three Lives; The Making of Americans
• John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• Jean Toomer, Cane
• Richard Wright, Black Boy
• Anzia Yezierska, The Bread Givers; Children of Loneliness
• Israel Zangwill, The Melting Pot

AMST 202: Introduction to American Studies, Fall 2004
Created: 8/24/04 5:48 pm
Last modified: 9/16/04 4:35 pm