AS205: Inbetween Peoples

American Civilization III

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In this course, we will explore the struggles and triumph "inbetween peoples" after Reconstruction and before WWII.

Bibliography

Monographs

Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civiliation: a Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1914. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Leavitt, Judith Walzer. Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. Boston: Beacon Press, 1996.

Enstad, Nan. Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.

Faulkner, William. Light in August. New York: Vintage International , 1990.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Larson, Edward. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuting Debate over Science and Religion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

Articles

Ngai, Mae. “The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: a Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924.” Journal of American History 86, no. 1 .

Roediger, David and James Barrett. “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and "New-Immigrant" Working Class.” Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past (2002): 138-168.