Guides: ANTH 3101: American Culture and Society: Course Readings

A Note on the Course Readings

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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.
This item is on electronic reserve for ANTH 3101. You will need to use the course passcode, your euid, and your euid password to access the reading. Your instructor will provide the course passcode.

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.

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ANTH 3101: American Culture and Society: Course Readings

A Note on the Course Readings

Defining America(n)

Defining Culture/Society

Defining the "American Spirit"

Citizenship, Migration, and Borders

Community and Family

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Racialization

Class/Status

Microaggressions

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Media/Social Media

Education

Incarceration

ANTH 3101: American Culture and Society: Course Readings

A Note on the Course Readings

Defining America(n)

Defining Culture/Society

Defining the "American Spirit"

Citizenship, Migration, and Borders

Community and Family

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Racialization

Class/Status

Microaggressions

Neoliberalism

Capitalism

Media/Social Media

Education

Incarceration

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