Updated 05/08/2015
AMST 345 Comps Reading List
In Keywords for American Culture
“America,” “Capitalism,” “Citizenship,” “Class,” “Economy,” “Queer”
From American Quarterly:
Matthew Frye Jacobson, “Where We Stand: US Empire at Street Level and in the Archive,”
American Quarterly, 65. 2 (2013): 265-290.
Responses by Wesling and Briggs.
Barbara Tomlinson and George Lipsitz, “American Studies as Accompaniment,” American
Quarterly 65.1 (2013): 1-30.
From Locating American Studies (ed. Lucy Maddox; Johns Hopkins UP 1998):
Henry Nash Smith, “Can ‘American Studies’ Develop a Method?” plus Buell commentary.
Warren I. Susman, “History and the American Intellectual: Uses of a Usable Past” plus
Frisch commentary.
Gene Wise, “’Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of
the Movement” plus Mechling commentary.
Alice Kessler-Harris, “Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate”
plus Davidson commentary.
George Lipsitz, "Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory,
and American Studies" plus Kaplan commentary.
Kevin J. Mumford, "Homosex Changes: Race, Cultural Geography, and the Emergence of the
Gay" plus Martin commentary.
From American Studies: An Anthology (ed. Radway, Gaines, Shank, von Eschen; WileyBlackwell 2009):
Lauren Berlant, “The Intimate Public Sphere”
Lennard Davis, “The Rule of Normalcy: Politics and Disability in the USA.”
Philip Deloria, “’I Want to Ride in Geronimo’s Cadillac.’”
Nan Enstad, “Fashioning Political Subjectivities: The 1909 Shirtwaist Strike and the
‘Rational Girl Striker’”
Updated 05/08/2015
Herman S. Gray, “Television and the Politics of Difference.”
Saidiya V. Hartman, “Redressing the Pained Body: Toward a Theory of Practice”
Walter Johnson, “Turning People into Products.”
Amy Kaplan, “Manifest Domesticity.”
Amy Kaplan, “Where Is Guantánamo?”
Mae Ngai, “The Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 and the Reconstruction of Race in Immigration
Law.”
Walter Ohmann, “The Origins of Mass Culture.”
Peggy Pascoe, “Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property.”
Nayan Shah, “Between ‘Oriental Depravity’ and ‘Natural Degenerates’: Spatial
Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans.”
Maritza Sturken, “The Wall and the Screen Memory: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial”
Alan Trachtenberg, “Likeness as Identity: Reflections on the Daguerrean Mystique.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “Two Spinning Wheels in an Old Log House.”
Leti Volpp, “The Citizen and the Terrorist.”
Michael Warner, “The Cultural Mediation of the Print Medium.”