American Studies Orals List, 2019-2020

AMERICAN STUDIES AS A DISCIPLINE:

Articles:

• Presidential addresses published in American Quarterly since 1995.

  • 2019: Roderick Ferguson, “To Catch a Light Filled Vision: American Studies and the Activation of Radicle Traditions” (forthcoming publication)

  • 2018: Kandice Chuh, “Pedagogies of Dissent.”

  • 2017: Robert Warrior, “Home / Not Home: Centering American Studies Where We Are.”

  • 2016: David Roediger, “Making Solidarity Uneasy: Cautions on a Keyword from Black Lives Matter to the Past.”

  • 2015: Lisa Duggan, “The Fun and the Fury of Transforming American Studies”

  • 2014: Curtis Marez, “Seeing in the Red: Looking at Student Debt”

  • 2013: Matthew Frye Jacobson, “Where We Stand: U.S. Empire at Street Level and in the Archive”

  • 2012: Priscilla Wald, “American Studies and the Politics of Life.”

  • 2011: Ruth Wilson Gilmore, “What is to be Done?”

  • 2010: Kevin Gaines, “Of Teachable Moments and Specters of Race.”

  • 2009: Philip J. Deloria, “Broadway and Main: Crossroads, Ghost Roads, and Paths to an American Studies Future.”

  • 2006: Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place.”

  • 2005: Shelley Fisher Fishkin, “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies.”

  • 2003: Stephen H. Sumida, “Where in the World is American Studies?”

  • 2002: George Sanchez, “Working at the Crossroads: American Studies for the 21st Century.”

  • 1998: Janice A. Radway, “What’s in a Name? Presidential Address to the American Studies Association.

  • 1997: Mary Helen Washington, “‘Disturbing the Peace: What Happens to American Studies if you Put African American Studies at the Center?’”

  • 1995: Elaine Tyler May, “The Radical Roots of American Studies.”
    
    

• Faye Ginsburg, “Ethnography and American Studies,” Cultural Anthropology (Vol. 21, No. 3 (January 2008): 487-495.
  
  

• Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies and its Theoretical Legacies” in Cultural Studies, eds., Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (New York: Routledge, 1992), 277-286.
  
  

• Alex Lubin, “American Studies, the Middle East, and the Question of Palestine,” American Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 3, March 2016, 1-21.
  
  

• Philip Manning, Sarah Jammal, Blake Shimola, “Ethnography on Trial,” Society, Vol. 53, Issue 4 (August 2016): 444-452.
  
  

Books:

• Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, Keywords for American Cultural Studies (New York, NY: New York University Press, 2007).
  
  

• Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Garry Peller, Kendall Thomas, Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (The New Press, 1996).
  
  

• Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease, eds., Cultures of United States Imperialism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993). [Especially the widely cited Introduction]
  
  

• George Lipsitz, ed., American Studies in a Moment of Danger (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
  
  

• Lucy Maddox, ed., Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).
  
  

• Jose David Saldivar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).
  
  

• Gabriella Gutíerrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris, Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Association of American University Presses, 2012).

Selected Faculty Books from the Department of American Studies
at the University of Texas at Austin

• Robert H. Abzug, Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).
  
  

• Cary Cordova, The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco (Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2017).
  
  

• Janet M. Davis, The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 2002).
  
  

• Nicole M. Guidotti-Hernandez, Unspeakable Violence: Remapping U.S. and Mexican National Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011).
  
  

• Steven Hoelscher, Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America’s Little Switzerland (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).
  
  

• Randolph Lewis, Under Surveillance: Being Watched in America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017).
  
  

• Stephen H. Marshall, The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2011).

• Jeff Meikle, American Plastic: A Cultural History (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1995).
  
  

• Julia Mickenberg, American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).

• Shirley E. Thompson, Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).

Classic and Contemporary Work

Critical Theory / Illustrative Methodologies / Impact on the Field

1. Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (The New Press, 2012).
   
   

2. Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco, CA: Aunt Lute Press, 1987).
   
   

3. Beth L. Bailey, From Front Porch To Back Seat: Courtship in America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).
   
   

4. Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
   
   

5. Rick Baldoz, The Third Asiatic Invasion: Migration and Empire in Filipino America, 1898-1946 (New York: New York University Press, 2011).
   
   

6. Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert, eds., W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America; The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (Princeton 2018).
   
   

7. Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998).
   
   

8. Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).
   
   

9. Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York, NY: Routledge, 1999).
   
   

10. Ben Chappell, Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013).

1. George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York, NY: BasicBooks, 1994).
   
   

2. Jefferson R. Cowie, Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York, NY: The New Press, 2010).
   
   

3. Kimberlé Crenshaw, On Intersectionality: Essential Writings (The New Press, 2019) [Forthcoming]
   
   

4. William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Hill & Wang, 1983).
   
   

5. Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003).
   
   

6. Mike Davis, Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998).
   
   

7. Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (New York: Crown, 2016).
   
   

8. Carolyn de la Peña [now Thomas], Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
   
   

9. Philip J. Deloria, Playing Indian (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999).
   
   

10. Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (New York: Verso, 1997).
    
    

11. Joel Dinerstein, The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017.
    
    

12. Susan Douglas, Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1995).
    
    

13. Mary L. Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).
    
    

14. Cynthia Enloe, Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; revised edition, 2000 (1989)).
    
    

15. Roderick Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
    
    

16. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee (NJ: Rutgers, 2015).
    
    

17. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).
    
    

18. Karen Haltunnen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986).
    
    

19. Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1995).
    
    

20. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (New York, NY: Routledge, 2000).
    
    

21. bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston, MA: South End Press, 1992).
    
    

22. Adria L. Imada, Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012).
    
    

23. Mathew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
    
    

24. Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001).
    
    

25. Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class (New York: The Free Press, 1994).
    
    

26. Josh Kun, Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005).
    
    

27. Marisol LeBrón, Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019).
    
    

28. Erika Lee, The Making of Asian America: A History (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
    
    

29. Jill Lepore, The Name of War: King Philip’s War and the Origins of American Identity (New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
    
    

30. George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (Temple University Press, Revised and Expanded Edition 2006).
    
    

31. Paul K. Longmore, Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability (Temple University Press, 2003).

1. Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface, Minstrelsy, and the American Working Class (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
   
   

2. Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996).
   
   

3. Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964).
   
   

4. Douglas S. Massey, Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System (New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007).
   
   

5. Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East Since 1945 (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; revised edition, 2005 (2000)).
   
   

6. Tiya Miles, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
   
   

7. Ana Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).
   
   

8. Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
   
   

9. David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986 (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1987).
   
   

10. Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).
    
    

11. Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark. Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage Books, 1992).
    
    

12. Monica Munoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Cambridge, MA: 2018).

1. Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2011).

1. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 3rd Edition (New York, NY: Routledge, 2015).
   
   

2. Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.)
   
   

3. Deborah Paredez, Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009).
   
   

4. Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986).
   
   

5. Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Vintage, 1998).
   
   

6. David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (New York, NY: Verso, 2007).
   
   

7. Tricia Rose, Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1994).
   
   

8. George Sánchez, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
   
   

9. Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).
   
   

10. Henry Nash Smith, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950).
    
    

11. Ted Steinberg, Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
    
    

12. Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005 – 2014 with new preface).
    
    

13. Julie Sze, Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006).
    
    

14. Eric Tang, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015).

1. John W. Troutman, Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879-1934 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012).
   
   

2. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (New York: Vintage, 1990).
   
   

3. Siva Vaidhyanathan, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York: New York University Press, 2001).
   
   

4. Grace Wang, Soundtracks of Asian America (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).
   
   

5. Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Warrior, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (New York: The New Press, 1997).
   
   

6. Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013).
   
   

7. Chris Wilson, The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1997).
   
   

8. Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1993).
   
   

Engaging with Ethnography

• Ben Chappell, Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of Mexican American Custom Cars (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013).
  
  

• Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003).

• Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (New York: Crown, 2016).
  
  

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007).
  
  

• Faye Ginsburg, “Ethnography and American Studies,” Cultural Anthropology (Vol. 21, No. 3 (January 2008): 487-495.
  
  

• Randolph Lewis, Under Surveillance: Being Watched in America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2017).

• Philip Manning, Sarah Jammal, Blake Shimola, “Ethnography on Trial,” Society, Vol. 53, Issue 4 (August 2016): 444-452.

• Tiya Miles, Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (Durham, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

• Monica Munoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Cambridge, MA: 2018).

• Sherry B. Ortner, New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of ’58 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.)

• Audra Simpson, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014).

• Eric Tang, Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015).