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ANTH 3101: American Culture and Society

A guide to course readings and library resources for research in Anthropology 3101

Defining America(n)

Acosta-Belen, E & Santiago, C. (1998) “Merging borders: The remapping of America. In The Latino studies reader. Eds. A. Darder & R. Torres. Malden, Mass: Blackwell.
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Defining Culture/Society

Defining the "American Spirit"

Rosa, J (2019) Introduction In Looking like a language, sounding like a race. New York: Oxford UP.

Citizenship, Migration, and Borders

Community and Family

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Racialization

Class/Status

Khan, S. (2011) The new elite. In Privilege: The making of an adolescent elite at St. Paul’s school. Princeton: Princeton UP.
Cohen, D. et al. (2017) Defining social class across time & between groups. Personality and social psychology bulletin. 43(1)1, 1530-1545.
Thu, K. et al. (2017) Being Heard, Not Only Seen: Intersections & low-income housing, Dekalb, IL. Human Organization. 76(4) 348-357
Ortner, S. (2003) Reading class. In New Jersey dreaming: Capital, culture, and the class of ’58. Durham, NC: Duke UP.
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Microaggressions

Neoliberalism

Lacy, S. & Rome, A. (2017) (Re)Politicizing the anthropologist in the age of Neoliberalism and #Blacklivesmatter. Transforming Anthropology. 25:2, 171-184.

Capitalism

Dávila, A. M. (2004). Empowered Culture: The empowerment zone & the selling of El Barrio. In Barrio dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the neoliberal city. Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Media/Social Media

Naussbaum, E. (2019) The big picture: How Buffy the Vampire Slayer turned me into a TV critic In I Like to Watch: Arguing my way through the TV revolution. New York: Random House.

Education

Incarceration