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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.
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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