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Introduction to American History

• Jenkins, Philip, A history of the United States, Fifth edition., London, Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017Compulsory*
• Lee, Erika, America First, Immigrants Last: American Xenophobia Then and Now, Part of: The journal of the gilded age and progressive era, vol. 19, no. 1, 2020, p. 3–18Compulsory*
• Lepore, Jill, This America: the case for the nation, First edition, New York, Liveright Publishing Corporation, [2019]Compulsory*
• Takaki, Ronald T., A different mirror: a history of multicultural America, 1st rev. ed., New York, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co., 2008Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

Scanned material and online resources may be added.

Introduction to American Politics

• Bennett, W. Lance; Livingston, Steven, The disinformation age: politics, technology, and disruptive communication in the United States, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Wasserman, Gary; Fullmer, Elliott, The basics of American politics, Sixteenth edition., Hoboken, N.J., Pearson, 2019Compulsory*

Additional selected articles.

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Race and Ethnicity in the United States

• Alexander, Michelle, New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 2012Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Bayor, Ronald H., Race and ethnicity in America: a concise history, New York, Columbia University Press, c2003Compulsory*
• Cox, Karen L., No Common Ground: Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Jacobson, Matthew, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race, Harvard UP, 1999Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Goffman, Alice, On the run: fugitive life in an American city, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014Compulsory*

Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror (3rd ed., 2017): https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/ (Links to an external site.). Selected chapters. Open access.

Scanned material and online resources may be added.

American Media Cultures

• Steve M. Barkin, American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Chadwick, Andrew, The hybrid media system: politics and power, 2nd edition., New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2017Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Dallmann, Antje; Boesenberg, Approaches to American Cultural Studies, Routledge, 2016Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Lopez, Lori Kido, Race and media: critical approaches, New York, New York University Press, [2020]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Markham, Tim, Media and everyday life, London, Palgrave, 2017Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available online.)
• James G. Webster, The Marketplace of Attention: How Audiences Take Shape in a Digital Age, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory* (Selected chapters.)
• Williams, Bruce Alan; Delli Carpini, Michael X., After Broadcast News: Media Regimes, Democracy, and the New Information Environment (Communication, Society and Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2011Compulsory* (Selected chapters.)

Scanned material and online resources may be added.

* Compulsory