ACS List
2005/06 Revision


1. American Studies Reader:
George Lipsitz, “Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn…”
Susan Kilgore, article on UNM AMST
Presidential addresses by Amy Kaplan, Janice Radway, Alice Kessler-Harris, Mary Helen Washington
Gene Wise, “Paradigm Dramas”
John Carlos Rowe, “Post-Nationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies,” or Virginia Dominguez, “Resituating American Studies in a Critical Internationalism”
Lisa Lowe (chapter from Immigrant Acts)
Jose David Saldivar (chapter from Border Matters)

2. Stuart Banner. How the Indians Lost their Land. (Belknap Press, 2005).

3. Gail Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. (U of Chicago P, 1996).

4. Judith Butler. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. (Routledge, 1999).

5. James Brooks. Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. (U of North Carolina P, 2002).

6. Mike Davis. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster.
(Vintage, 1999).

7. Philip Deloria, Playing Indian. (Yale UP, 1999).

8. Michael Denning. The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century. (Verso, 1998).

9. Margaret Dubin. Native American Collected. (U of New Mexico P, 2001).

10. Fatimah Rony. The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and the Ethnographic Spectacle. (Duke UP, 1996).

11. Claire Fox. The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border. (U of Minnesota P, 1999).

12. Paul Gilroy. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness.
(Harvard UP, 1995).

13. Gregory, Steven. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community. (Princeton UP, 1999).

14. Pamela Haag, Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism. (Cornell, 1999).

15. Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention Of Nature.
(Free Association, 1991).

16. Isenberg, Andrew. The Destruction of Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920.
(Cambridge UP, 2001).

17. Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. (Harvard UP, 1999).

18. Amy Kaplan. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. (Harvard UP, 2005).

19. Latour, Bruno and Catherine Porter. Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy. (Harvard UP, 2004).

20. Robert Lee, Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture. (Temple UP, 2000).

21. Jose Limon, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States and the Erotics of Culture. (Beacon, 1999).

22. Curtis Marez. Drug Wars: The Political Economy of Narcotics. (U of Minnesota P, 2004).

23. Joseph Masco. The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War
New Mexico. (Princeton UP, 2006).

24. McAlister, Melanie. Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. (U of California P, 2001).

25. Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. (Princeton UP, 2002).

26. Pablo Mitchell. Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race and Conquest in Modernizing
New Mexico,1880-1920. (U of Chicago P, 2005).

27. Walter Mignolo. Local Histories/Global Designs. (Princeton UP, 2000).

28. John Nieto-Phillips. The Language of Blood: The Making of Spanish-American Identity in New Mexico, 1850-1940. (U of New Mexico P, 2001).

29. Ngai, Meg. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
(Princeton UP, 2005).

30. Emma Perez, The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas Into History. (Indiana UP, 1999).

31. Laura Pulido, Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest. (U of Arizona P, 1996).

32. Elvira Pulitano. Towards a Native American Critical Theory. (U of Nebraska P, 2003).

33. Vicente Rafael. White Love and Other Events in Filipino History. (Duke UP, 2000).

34. Penny Von Eschen. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. (Harvard UP, 2004).

35. Singh, Nikihl. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy.
(Harvard UP, 2005).

36. Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann (eds.), Private Screenings: Television and the Female Consumer. (U. of. Minnesota Press, 1992).

37. Anne Whiston Spirn, Language of Landscape. (Yale UP, 2000).

38. Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, The AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics of Remembering. (U. of California, 1997).

39. Raul Homero Villa, Barrio-Logos: Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture. (U of Texas Press, 2000).

40. Steve Waksman, Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience. (Harvard UP, 2001).

41. Walker, Samuel. Prompt and Utter Destruction: President Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan. (U of North Carolina Press, 2005).

42. Warrior, Robert. The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction.
(U of Minnesota P, 2005).

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