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Reading List - Johnson
(History of the American West: Urbanization/Suburbanization, Immigration, Borderlands)
The American West
• Heather Cox Richardson, West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after
the Civil War (2007)
• Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden
History of American Conservation (2003) [Chapters on Yellowstone and Grand Canyon]
• William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
• Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
(2000)
• Thomas Andrews, Killing for Coal (2009)
• Patricia Limerick, Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (1987)
• Elliott West, The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
(2000)
• Richard White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
(2011)
• Phoebe Kropp, California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place
(2008)
• Michael Pfeifer, Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 (2006)
Urban/Suburban in the Great West
• James R. Grossman. Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great
Migration. (1989)
• Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919–1939.(1990)
• Davarian Baldwin, Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black
Urban Life (2007)
• Eric Avilla, Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight (2004)
• Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1992)
• Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (2005)
• Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001)
• Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life And Politics In The Working-Class Suburbs
of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002)
• Marilynn Johnson, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II
(1993)
• William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (1991)
Immigration/Migration
• Mae N. Ngai. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern
America.(2004)
• George J. Sánchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in
Chicano Los Angeles, 1900–1945.(1993)
• Mario T. García, Desert Immigrants: The Mexicans of El Paso, 1880-1920 (1982)
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Ricardo Romo, East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio (1983)
Vicki Ruiz, Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the
California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950 (1987)
Zaragosa Vargas, Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Workers in Detroit and
the Midwest, 1917-1933 (1999)
Juan R. García, Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 (1996)
Gabriela F. Arredondo, Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-1939 (2008)
Kelly Hernandez, Migra!: A History of the US Border Patrol (2010)
Erika Lee, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010)
James Gregory, American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in
California (1991)
Race/Gender/Ethnicity in the West
• David Wallace Adams, Education for extinction : American Indians and the boarding
school experience, 1875-1928 (1995)
• Anne M. Butler, Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's
Penitentiaries (1997)
• Mary Odem, Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female
Sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920 (1995) [Chapters drawn from California data]
• Peggy Pascoe, What comes naturally: miscegenation law and the making of race in
America (2008)
• Edward J Escobar, Race, police, and the making of a political identity : Mexican
Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 (1999)
• Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown
(2001)
• Mine Okubo, Citizen 1366
• Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction. (1999)
• Stephen Pitti, The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican
Americans (2004)
• David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (1987)
• Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the
American West, 1874-1939 (1993)
• Neil Foley, The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton
Culture (1999)
• Frederick Hoxie, A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920
(2001)
• Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and
the East Bay Community (1996)
• Natalia Molina, Fit to be citizens?: Public Health and Race in Los Angeles, 1879-1939
(2006)
• Peter Boag, Same Sex Affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific
Northwest (2003)
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Borderlands
John Nieto-Phillips, “Margins to Mainstream: The Brave New World of Borderlands History,”
Journal of American History (2011) 98(2): 336-337
Pekka Hämäläinen and Samuel Truett, “On Borderlands,” Journal of American History
(2011) 98(2): 338-361
Geraldo L. Cadava, “Borderlands of Modernity and Abandonment: The Lines within Ambos
Nogales and the Tohono O’odham Nation,” Journal of American History (2011) 98(2):
362-383
Benjamin H. Johnson, “The Cosmic Race in Texas: Racial Fusion, White Supremacy, and
Civil Rights Politics,” Journal of American History (2011) 98(2): 404-419
Seema Sohi, “Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in the Transnational Western
U.S.-Canadian Borderlands,” Journal of American History (2011) 98(2): 420-436
Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, “From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States,
and the Peoples in Between in North American History,” The American Historical
Review, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jun., 1999), pp. 814-841