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Freshman level

Comparative Perspectives on Power, Resistance & Change AMS/ASA/LAO/NAI 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.

Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World LAO 250 (fa26)

  • I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchú
  • Love After Death by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

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

Gender, Sexuality & Migration ASA 297 (fa26)

  • Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Siddharth Kara
  • Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family & Illegality among Transnational Mexicans by Deborah A. Boehm
  • High-Tech Housewives: Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor & Transmigration by Amy Bhatt
  • The Trafficker Next Door: How Household Employers Exploit Domestic Workers by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
  • The Qualities of a Citizen: Women, Immigration & Citizenship, 1870-1965 by Martha Gardner

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

LANDBACK! Indigenous Rematriation & Restitution NAI 360 (fa26)

  • Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations under Settler Siege by Justice & O’Brien

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

Senior level

Musical Theatre & Fan Cultures AMS 440 (fa26)

  • Fandom in Musical Theatre by Jessica Hillman-McCord
  • John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower

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