|
|
POSSIBILITIES Bring Copy of Published Book Review to Class The best way to learn to write a good book review (a task we will take on in a few weeks) is to start by reading good book reviews. Choose a journal or two in a field that interests you, and read enough book reviews so that you can identify those that are most helpful to you as a reader. Choose and photocopy the best review you read; bring your photocopy to class to hand in. About our readings for this week: If we take seriously the histories and critiques of nationalism we read last week, we ought to begin to wonder what a history that did not take nationalism for granted might look like. The four articles I've assigned for today offer a variety of models for "transnational" histories. How do these models compare to each other? Which do you think is most promising? Why? Reading Assignment: Ann Stoler, "Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion in Colonial Southeast Asia." In Becoming National, pp. 285-322. Arif Dirlik, "Asians on the Rim: Transnational Capital and Local Community in the Making of Contemporary Asian America." Amerasia Journal 22 (#3, 1996): 1-24. (In Course Reader.) George Lipsitz, "Home is Where the Hatred Is:" Work, Music and the Transnational Economy." In Home, Exile and Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place, ed. H. Naficy. Routledege, 1999, pp. 193-212. (In Course Reader) Michelle A.
Stephens, "Black Transnationalism and the Politics of National Identity:
West Indian Intellectuals in Harlem in the Age of War and Revolution."
American Quarterly 50 (1998): 592-608. (Electronic
Journal). Suggestions for Further Reading: Alice Kessler-Harris, "In the Nation's Image: The Gendered Limits of Social Citizenship in the Depression Era." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 1251-1279. (Electronic Journal). *Bettyann Kevles, Naked to the Bone: Medical Imaging in the Twentieth Century. Rutgers, 1997. *Daniel T. Rodgers, Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Harvard, 1998. *Gary Gerstle, Working-class Americanism: The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960. Cambridge, 1989. *Richard White, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. Cambridge, 1991. *Yukiko Koshiro, Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S. Occupation of Japan. Columbia, 1999. *Ian R. Tyrrell, True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860-1930. University of California Press, 1999. Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Duke University Press, 1999. Doris Friedensohn, "Toward a Post-Imperial, Transnational American Studies: Notes of a Frequent Flier." American Studies International 36 (1998): 26-45. Robin D. G. Kelley, "'But a Local Phase of a World Problem:' Black History's Global Vision." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 1045-1077. Marcel van der Linden, "Transnationalizing American Labor History." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 1078-1092. Ian Tyrrell, "Peripheral Visions: California-Australian Environmental Contacts, C. 1850s-1910." Journal of World History 8 (1997): 275-302. Nicholas Canny, "Writing Atlantic History; or, Reconfiguring the History of Colonial British America." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 1093-1114. George Lipsitz, "World Cities and World Beat: Low-Wage Labor and Transnational Culture." Pacific Historical Review 68 (1999): 213-231. Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, "Fostering Identities: Mexico's Relations with Its Diaspora." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 545-567. Melani McAlister, "One Black Allah: The Middle East in the Cultural Politics of African American Liberation, 1955-1970." American Quarterly 51 (1999): 622-656. Maria Celia Toro, "The Internationalization of Police: The DEA in Mexico." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 623-640. S. Ilan Troen, "Frontier Myths and Their Applications in America and Israel: A Transnational Perspective." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 1209-1230. Richard White, "The Nationalization of Nature." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 976-986. Jorge Durand, Douglas S. Massey and Emilio A. Parrado, "The New Era of Mexican Migration to the United States." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 518-536. Michael Miller Topp, "The Transnationalism of the Italian-American Left: The Lawrence Strike of 1912 and the Italian Chamber of Labor of New York City." Journal of American Ethnic History 17 (1997): 39-63. Jesus Velasco, "Reading Mexico, Understanding the United States: American Transnational Intellectuals in the 1920s and 1990s." Journal of American History 86 (1999): 641-667. Masao Miyoshi, Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States. Harvard, 1991. David Harvey, Spaces of Hope. University of California Press, 2000. __________, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Basil Blackwell, 1989 Prasenjit, Duara, . “Transnationalism in the Era of Nation-States: China, 1900-1945.” Development and Change [Great Britain] 29:4 (1998): 647-670. Donna J. Guy, et al., Feminisms and internationalism. Blackwell, 1999. Laura Elizabeth Hein and Mark Selden, Censoring history : citizenship and memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States. M.E. Sharpe, 2000. Darlene Clark Hine and Jaqueline McLeod (1999). Crossing boundaries : comparative history of Black people in diaspora. Indiana University Press, 1999. Mrinalina Sinha, “Suffragism and Internationalism: The Enfranchisement of British and Indian Women under an Imperial State.” Indian Economic and Social History Review [India] 36:4 (1999): 461-484. |