Syllabus

Complete texts (please buy):

• Neil Campbell and Alistair Kean, American Cultural Studies, Fourth edition (2016) 
• Paul Boyer, American History: A Very Short Introduction (2012) 
• Lawrence Friedman, Law in America (2002) 

Articles, chapters and other excerpted texts (In a two-part compendium named "ENG1506" that you can buy at Akademika):

• From Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America (2016) 
• From Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016) 
• From Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America (2016) 
• From Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)      
• Costas Panagopoulos and Aaron C. Weinschenk, “Money in Elections” from A Citizen’s Guide to US Elections (2015) 
• David Mauk and John Oakland, Chapters 6 & 7: “Political Institutions: The Federal Government” and “Political Institutions: State and Local Government” in American Civilization: an Introduction (2014) 
• From Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2012) 
• From Corwin E. Smidt, American Evangelicals Today (2013) 
• From Henry H. Mitchell, Black Church Beginnings (2004) 
• From Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, third edition (2003) 
• Deborah Madsen, Chapter 2: “Dispossession: Native American Responses to the Ideology of Exceptionalism” in American Exceptionalism (1998) 
• From Jim Goad, Redneck Manifesto (1997) 
• From Richard Dyer, White (1997) 
• Elsa Barkley Brown, “Womanist Consciousness,” from Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women’s History, Vicki L. Ruiz, Ellen Carol Dubois, eds. (1994) 
• Alice Kessler-Harris, “Providers: Gender Ideology in the 1930s,” from A Woman’s Wage (1990) 
• Gloria Anzaldúa, “La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness,” from Borderlands: La Frontera (1987) 
• From Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men (1980) 
• From Simone De Beauvoir, America Day by Day (1958) 

Available digitally (will be uploaded to Fronter)

• Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism” (1978) 
• From Mark Twain, Roughing It (1872)
• Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July” (1852)
• The Constitution of the United States (1787-8) https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
• J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, “Letter III from an American Farmer” (1782)
• Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks concerning the Savages of North America” (1782-3)
• Declaration of Independence (1776)