🐯 Princeton American Studies unofficial reading list
| Freshman level | |
|---|---|
| Comparative Perspectives on Power, Resistance & Change AMS 101 (fa26) |
• The US War with Mexico: A Brief History with Documents by Ernesto Chavez |
| Sophomore level | |
|---|---|
| Intro. to Law & Public Policy in African American History AMS 231 (fa26) |
• Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice & Constructive Politics Are Needed in the Wake of Slavery & Colonialism by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò • Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Fields & Fields • When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th-Century America by Ira Katznelson • America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. |
| Jews Across the Americas AMS 257 (fa26) |
• Like a Bride by Rosa Nissán • Like a Mother by Rosa Nissán • God of Vengeance by Donald Margulies • The Implacable Urge to Defame: Cartoon Jews in the American Press, 1877-1935 by Matthew Baigell • Jews Across the Americas: A Sourcebook, 1492–Present by Brodsky & Leibman |
| The Makeover AMS 296 (fa26) |
• A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee ◦ Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng ◦ Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng |
| Junior level | |
|---|---|
| American Literature: 1930-Present AMS 340 (fa26) |
✔️ The Road by Cormac McCarthy • American Pastoral by Philip Roth ✔️ Maus: A Survivor’s Tale by Art Spiegelman ✔️ Beloved by Toni Morrison (my highlights) • Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson • The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner • The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead |
| Curatorial Time: Historic American Art & its 21st Century Audiences AMS 362 (fa26) |
• Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections by James Christen Steward • Whitney Museum of American Art: Handbook of the Collection by Dana Miller • Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art by Stephanie Sparling Williams |