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Required for Fall 2013:
1. American Cultures Reader. It can be purchased only from Copy Edge, 1508 Ocean Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112. Phone: 415-587-5345. Email address: job@copyedge.com.
2. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (a short novel). You can purchase it at City College Bookstore.
Recommended, not required: A Larger Memory by Ronald Takaki (Little, Brown & Company). If you have the time and interest, you will find this book enriching.
Movie titles to choose from
In addition to the reading assignments, the course requires your viewing and analyzing some movies. You will be viewing about one movie per week during semester-length courses but more frequently during summer courses. Here are some titles you can choose from:
Feature films:"A Raisin in the Sun," "American History X," "Barn Burning" (based on a short story by William Faulkner), "Bartleby," "Brokeback Mountain," "La Ciudad ("The City")," "Crash," "Dances with Wolves," "Death of a Salesman," "Fancydancing," "The Great Gatsby," "The House of Sand and Fog," "Joy Luck Club," "Malcolm X," "Mississippi Masala," "The Namesake," "El Norte," "Pieces of April," "Quinceanera," "The Sky Is Gray" (based on a short story by Ernest Gaines), "Smoke Signals," "The Visitor," "Rain on a Dry Land," and similar movies that relate to the course content. I will give you a list of more movies separately.
Documentaries:
1. "We Shall Remain: America Through Native Eyes," PBS mini-series on Native history, directed by Chris Eyre (You can select any of the numerous episodes.)
2. "Voices of A People's History of the United States"
3. "The Color of Fear"
4. "Edward Said on Orientalism," based on Edward Said's book Orientalism.
5. "Leslie M. Silko" (Native American Novelists series by Films for the Humanities)
6. "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies Arabs and Muslims" (or any film about racial stereotyping)
7. "Trudell" (directed hy Heather Rae)
8. "Half of Anything" (directed by Jon Tomhave)
9. "Scrubbed White" (directed by Frank Mitchell and Anna Geyer)
10. "American Dream"
11. "Eyes on the Prize"
I will give you titles of more documentaries separately.
You can use any movie as long as it is relevant to the course content.
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