area exams a month away....
With a little over one month until I take comps., i made some last minute changes in my American Studies field (actually i made the changes weeks ago, im only just now posting them here on my blog). Special thanks to anthropologist Caitlin Zaloom in the American Studies program for helping me tweak and tighten the scope of the field. Here is the updated list. Enjoy and wish me luck!
Methods in American Studies: Ethnography in American Studies
As a research method for social and cultural analysis, how can ethnography approach American Studies’ key concerns? In its contemporary configuration, what exactly constitutes American Studies’ “key concerns” anyway? Though “American Studies” as a discipline has traditionally been linked to the study of history and literature, how have social science methods been taken up within the field? In order to get at these inquiries, this list includes exemplary
A. What is American Studies today? Foundational Frames
Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman eds., The Futures of American Studies
Donald Peace and Robyn Wiegman, “Futures”
Jan Radway, “What’s in a Name?”
Michael Denning, “Work and Culture in American Studies”
George Lipstiz, “Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements
Eric Cheyftiz, “The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies”
Lucy Maddox, ed., Locating American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline
Henry Nash Smith, “Can ‘American Studies’ Develop a Method?”
Gene Wise, “‘Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement”
Robert F. Berkhofer Jr., “A New Context for a New American Studies”
George Lipsitz, “Listening to Learn and Learning to Listen: Popular Culture, Cultural Theory, and American Studies”
Alice Kessler-Harris, “Cultural Locations: Positioning American Studies in the Great Debate”
John Carlos Rowe, ed. Post-Nationalist American Studies
John Carlos Rowe-, “Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies”
Barbara Brinson Curiel, “My Border Stories: Life Narratives, Interdisciplinarity and Post Nationalism in Ethic Studies”
Henry Yu, “How Tiger Woods Lost His Stripes: Postnationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration and the Commodification of Culture”
B. What is Americanist Ethnography today? Foundational Frames
John L. Caughney, “The Ethnography of Everyday Life: Theories and Methods for American Culture Studies.” American Quarterly, Vol. 34, No.3 (1982), pp. 222-243.
Michael Moffatt, “Ethnographic Writing About American Culture”, Ann. Rev. of Anthropology, 1992, 21:205-229
Faye Ginsburg. “Ethnography and American Studies” in Cultural Anthropology, August 2006, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 487-495
C. Critical Approaches to the Key Problematics
*--ethnographic texts
^ --american studies/cultural theory texts
Transnationalisms, Diasporas, and Migrations: Towards a Transnational American Studies
*Paul Stoller, Money Has No Smell: The Africanization of
*Martin Manalansan, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora
*Carlos Decena, Queering the Heights: Dominican Transnational Identities and Male Homosexuality in NYC
(Ph.D. dissertation, department of American Studies, 2005)
*Jacqueline Nassy Brown, Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black
*Aihwa Ong, Buddha Is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New
Articles:
* Michael Burowov, “Introduction: Reaching for the Global” and “Grounding Globalization” in Global Ethnography Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World
* George Marcus, “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multisited Ethnography” in Annual Review of Anthropology, 1995, 24: 95-117
*Gupta, A. and Ferguson, J. "Discipline and Practice: the field as site, method and location in anthropology," in Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, A. Gupta and J. Berkeley (eds.), University of California Press, LA & London, 1997, pp. 1-46.
The Global City as Ethnographic Object: Gentrification, Urban Governance and the
^ Samuel Delaney, Times Square Red,
* Jane Jacobs, The Life and Death of the
* Sudhir Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
* Arlene Davila, Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and the
^ Lisa Duggan, The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Decline of Democracy
Sharon Zukin, Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change
Saskia Sassen, “Overview” and “The Geography and Composition of Globalization” in The Global City:
Putting Race to Work: The Meanings and “Uses” of Blackness
^ Robin D. G. Kelley, Yo Mama’s Dysfunctional!
*João H. Costa Vargas, Catching Hell in the City of
* John L. Jackson, Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Urban
*John L. Jackson, Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity
* Steven Gregory, Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community
The “Culture” and Production of Whiteness
^ George Lipstiz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
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*John Hartigan Jr., Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness in
Publics and Counterpublics
^ Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics
^ Phillip Brian Harper, Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations
*Fiona Buckland, Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer Worldmaking
Class, Work and Material Inequality
^ Andrew Ross, No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Consequences
*Rachel Sherman, Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
good luck with it all homie...
Posted by
AC |
3/05/2007
just reading the list made my head hurt...
Posted by
C. Baptiste-Williams |
3/05/2007
good luck love. maybe we'll end up at the same pride this summer so we can celebrating excelling at these exams.
Posted by
lex |
3/16/2007