Main group 1

Introduction to American History

• Jenkins, Philip, A history of the United States, Fifth edition., London, Palgrave, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, 2017Compulsory*
• 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.)

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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.)
• Bodnar, Kristina T., "Sheer Force of Tweet": Testing the Limits of Executive Power on Twitter, Part of: Journal of law, technology & the Internet [Recurso electrónico], vol. 10, no. 1, 2019, https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/caswestres10&id=133&collection=journals&index=journals/caswestresCompulsory*
• Engstrom, Richard L., Partisan Gerrymandering: Weeds in the Political Thicket, Part of: Social science quarterly: published on behalf of the Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 101, no. 1, 2019, p. 23–36Compulsory*
• Leigh Grove, Tara, The Supreme Court's Legitimacy Dilemma, Part of: Harvard law review, vol. 132, no. 8, 2019, p. 2240–2277, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26800092Compulsory*

Krutz, Glen, ed., American Government 3e (Houston, TX: OpenStax, 2021). Selected chapters. Open access: https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-3e.

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*
• Berlin, Ira, Many thousands gone [electronic resource]: the first two centuries of slavery in North America / Ira Berlin, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Coleman, Sarah R., The walls within: the politics of immigration in modern America / Sarah R. Coleman, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Douglass, Frederick Author, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, uuuu-uuuuCompulsory*
• Goffman, Alice, On the run: fugitive life in an American city, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2014Compulsory*
• 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, 2020Compulsory*
• Salisbury, Neal, The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans, Part of: The William and Mary quarterly, vol. 53, no. 3, 1996, p. 435–458, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947200Compulsory*

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

• 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.)
• Edgerton, Gary R., The Columbia history of American television, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007Compulsory*
• Hoxworth, Kellen, Football Fantasies: Neoliberal Habitus, Racial Governmentality, and National Spectacle, Part of: American quarterly, vol. 72, no. 1, 2020, p. 155–179, https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/752333Compulsory*
• Lopez, Lori Kido, Race and media: critical approaches, New York, New York University Press, [2020]Compulsory* (Selected chapters. Available as e-book through UUB.)
• Sturken, Marita, Reenactment, Fantasy, and the Paranoia of History: Oliver Stone's Docudramas, Part of: History and theory: studies in the philosophy of history, vol. 36, no. 4, 1997, p. 64–79, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2505575Compulsory*
• 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