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final examination topics: MA, American: American Studies Theories, Cultural Studies, Visual Culture
- Reinterpreting the âsacred textsâ of America (The Declaration of Independence, The Declaration of Sentiments; the speeches of Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, John Wannuaucon Quinney, Chief Red Jacket, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Woodrow Wilson, John F. Kennedy, etc.)
- Nature and nation: âOldâ and âNew Americanistâ ideas of the land and the mission
- The intellectual history of women: discussing Puritan subversion, separate spheres, womenâs history, citizenship, and the gender of individualism
- The âpictorial turnâ
- Visual culture versus art history
- The social construction of the visual and the visual construction of the social in American culture
- Gender and visual representation (empowerment and disempowerment of vision)
- Race and visual representation (empowerment and disempowerment of vision)
- US women religious leaders and their impact
- Racial tokenism in the visual arts: television and film
- Black market commodities and their necessity in American commerce
- The âAmerican Dreamâ vs. American socio-reality
- Major religions that are still recognized as cults
- Womenâs depection in mass media and and its role in female emancipation.
- Marginilization of American women in religious movements
recommended readings
- Althen, Gary (with Doran Amanda and Szmania Susan), American Ways, 2nd Edition, Intercultural Press, 2003.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara, Bait and Switch: The Futile Pursuit of the American Dream. Holt, 2005.
- Ehrenreich, Barbara, Nickel and Dimed. Holt, 2001.
- Rothstein, Bo, Social Traps and the Problem of Trust (Theories of Institutional Design). Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- McFarlane, C. K., ed., Readings in Intellectual History: The American Tradition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
- Hollinger, David A., and Charles Capper, ed., The American Intellectual Tradition, IâII. New York: Oxford UP, 1997.
- Pease, Donald E., ed., National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.
- Schlosser, Eric, Fast Food Nation. Penguin Books, 2002.
- Harley, Gail M., Emma Curtis Hopkins: Forgotten Founder of New Thought. Syracuse UP, 2002.
- Macionis, John, Social Problems (4th edition). Prentice Hall, 2009.
- Kerber, Linda K., No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies. Women and the Obligations of Citizenship. New York: Hill and Wang, 1998.
- Kerber, Linda K., Towards an Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997.
- Kerber, Linda K., Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1980.
- Kerber, Linda K., Alice Kessler-Harris and Kathryn Kish Sklar, U. S. History as Womenâs History. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1995.
- Kerber, Linda K., and Jane Sherron de Hart, Womenâs America. Refocusing the Past. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
- Mooney, Linda, D. Knox, and C. Schacht, Understanding Social Problems (7th edition). Wadsworth, 2010.
- Maddox, Lucy, ed., Locating American Studies. The Evolution of a Discipline. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
- Baker Eddy, Mary, Manual of the Mother Church (The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts). IndyPublish, 2007.
- Machin, David, and Theo van Leeuwen, Global Media Discourse. Routledge, 2007
- Horwitz, Richard P., ed., The American Studies Anthology. Wilmington: Scholarly Resources, 2001.
- Phillip, Rayner, Peter Wall, Stephan Kruger, Media Studies: The Essential Resource. Routledge, 2004
- Kephart, William, and W. Zellner, Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, 5th ed. St. Martinâs Press, 1993.
- Kornblum, William, and J. Julian, Social Problems (13th edition). Prentice Hall, 2008.
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