In-Between Peoples

American Studies 205

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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 Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Kraut, Alan. Silent Travlers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace". Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Flake, Kathleen. The Politics of American Religious Identity: The Seating of Senator Reed Smoot, Mormon Apostle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

Faulkner, William. Light in August (1932). New York: Vintage International, 1990.

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

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

Volume Chapters

Roediger, Dave and James Barrett. “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and "New-Immigrant" Working Class.” Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

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 .