102 Reserved Texts List

The instructor keeps these items in his office. Request to see a piece during office hours, or check them out for a few days at a time. Use these sources for extra reading, more information on topics covered in class, and to find sources cited in these works (backtracking research) for your own project.

NOTE: All source-cites here are in MLA style.

"THE AMERICAN DREAM" & AMERICAN UNIVERSALISM
Rodriguez, Richard. Brown: The Last Discovery of America. NY: Viking, 2002.

Rorty, Richard, and Ramin Jahanbegloo. �America�s dreaming: Can the �American dream� belong also to the world? In the sixth of our Letters to Americans series, the Iranian scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo � and the philosopher Richard Rorty � discuss the future of America�s national story.� openDemocracy.net 8 August 2004. 10 September 2004 www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-115-2067.jsp.

CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS/CULTURES
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. NY: Viking, 2005.

-----. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. NY: WW Norton, 1999.

Douglas, Kate. �Born to trade.� NewScientist/Special Issue: Civilisation, How Human Nature Created the Modern World 18-24 Sept. 2004: 25-28.

Huntington, Samuel. �The Hispanic Challenge.� Foreign Policy March/April 2004: 30-45.

ECONOMICS & GLOBALIZATION
Florida, Richard. �The World Is Spiky: Globalization has changed the economic playing field, but hasn�t leveled it.� The Atlantic Monthly Oct. 2005: 48-51.

Saul, John Ralston. �The Collapse of Globalism: And the rebirth of nationalism.� Harper�s March 2004: 33-43.

Surowiecki, James. �The Financial Page: Penny-Wise.� The New Yorker 27 Sept. 2004: 68.

THE ENVIRONMENT
Coghlan, Andy. �Pollution triggers a wild, wild world.� NewScientist 4 Sept. 2004: 10-11.

Graham-Rowe, Duncan, and Bob Holmes. �Goodbye cruel world�� NewScientist 20 Nov. 2004: 6-7.

GLOBAL HEALTH
Anderson, Harvey. �Come eat with me.� Interview. By Diane Martindale. NewScientist 6 Aug. 2005: 46-47.

IMMIGRATION
D�vila, Arlene. Latinos Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People. Berkeley: UC Press, 2001.

Krauze, Enrique. �Identity Fanaticism.� The New Republic Online 21 June 2004. 28 June 2004 [URL unavailable].

INTERNATIONALISM
Hitchens, Christopher. Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays. NY: Nation Books, 2004.

Orwell, George. Burmese Days. NY: Harvest/HBJ, 1934.

-----. Homage to Catalonia. NY: Harvest, 1952.

INTERROGATION/TORTURE
Begley, Sharon. ��Criminal Injustice�: How Interrogation Methods Can Make Innocent People Confess.� The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Oct. 2005: 14.

Bowden, Mark. �The Dark Art of Interrogation.� The Atlantic Monthly Oct. 2003: 51-76.

Budiansky, Stephen. �Truth Extraction.� The Atlantic Monthly June 2005: 32-35.

Conroy, John. �Tools of Torture.� Chicago Reader 4 Feb. 2005: 1+.

Mangan, Katherine S. �Torture�s Paper Trail.� The Chronicle of Higher Education 21 Jan. 2005: A12-A14.

Marlan, Tori. �How I learned to Hate the War: An army interrogator�s eight demoralizing months in Iraq.� Chicago Reader 30 Sept. 2005: 1+.

Mayer, Jane. �The Experiment: The military trains people to withstand interrogation. Are those methods being misused at Guant�namo?� The New Yorker 11 July 2005: 60-71.

-----. �Outsourcing Torture.� The New Yorker 14 Feb. 2005: 106-123.

�No such thing as a non-lethal weapon.� NewScientist 5 Mar. 2005: 3.

�Ordeal: Habeas Corpus.� Harper�s June 2005: 16-18.

Smith, R. Jeffrey, and Dan Eggen. �Alberto Gonzales, Mystery Man.� The Washington Post National Weekly Edition 10 Jan. 2005: 10-11.

LANGUAGE
Gonzalez Echevarria, Roberto. �Is �Spanglish� a Language?� NYTimes.com 28 Mar. 1997 [URL unavailable].

Morales, Ed. Living In Spanglish: The Search for Latino Identity in America. NY: LA Weekly Books, 2002.

Nevaer, Louis. �America the Bilingual.� AlterNet 13 Oct. 2004. 9 Nov. 2004 www.alternet.org/story/20176.

Rodriguez, Richard. Brown. See �The American Dream.�

Stavans, Ilan. Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language. NY: HarperCollins, 2003.

POVERTY/SLUMS
Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. NY: Harvest, 1933.

REGIONAL FOCUS: Understanding Globalization in One Part of the World
Delisle, Guy. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea. Montreal: Drawn & Quarterly: 2005.

Dellios, Hugh. "In Mexico, 'They just don't see us': Blacks living on the Pacific coast struggle for recognition." Chicago Tribune 10 July 2005: 1.6.

McCormick, Joel. �China.com: In China�s land of opportunity, some Stanford entrepreneurs are changing the country that�s changing the world.� Stanford Sept./Oct 2004: 36-45.

Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. NY: Knopf, 2004.

Sacco, Joe. Palestine. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2002.

�Special Edition: India, The Next Knowledge Superpower.� NewScientist 19 Feb. 2005: 1+.

RESEARCH IN GENERAL
Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. NY: MLA, 2003.

SATIRE
Stewart, Jon, Ben Karlin, and David Javerbaum, eds. America (The Book): A Citizen�s Guide to Democracy Inaction. NY: Warner, 2004.

TERRORISM & 9/11
Baxter, Jenny, and Malcolm Downing. The BBC Reports on America, Its Allies and Enemies, and the Counterattack on Terrorism. NY: Overlook Press, 2002.

DeMott, Benjamin. �Whitewash as Public Service: How The 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation.� Harper�s Oct. 2004: 35-45.

Logevall, Fredrik, ed. Terrorism and 9/11: A Reader. NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Mesick, Brent. How the �USA Patriot� Act is Unpatriotic: A No-Nonsense Guide. Chicago: Chicagoland Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights, 2005.

Zelizer, Barbie, and Stuart Allan, eds. Journalism After September 11. London: Routledge, 2002.

URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Lawton, Graham. �Urban legends.� NewScientist/Special Issue: Civilisation, How Human Nature Created the Modern World 18-24 Sept. 2004: 32-35.

Mehta, Suketu. Maximum City. See �Regional Focus.�

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY: GENERAL
Carter, Ralph G., ed. Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2005.

WAR/IRAQ
�Casus belli: Is China the new enemy?� The Economist 11 June 2005: 40-41.

Clarke, Richard A. �Things Left Undone: Why has an administration that talks so much about homeland security been so unable to secure the homeland?� The Atlantic Monthly Nov. 2005: 37.

Gelb, Leslie H., and Anne-Marie Slaughter. �Declare War: It�s time to stop slipping into armed conflict.� The Atlantic Monthly Nov. 2005: 54-56.

Hersh, Seymour. �Annals of National Security: The Coming Wars, What the Pentagon can now do in secret.� The New Yorker 24 Jan. 2005: 40-47.

Lapham, Lewis. �Notebook: Chasing the pot.� Harper�s July 2004: 9-11.

Okerstrom, Dennis, ed. Peace, War, and Terrorism: A Longman Topics Reader. NY: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Roy, Arundhati. War Talk. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2003.

Silva, Mark. �Bush: Iraq is worth sacrifice, President invokes Sept. 11 in appeal for support.� Chicago Tribune 29 June 2005: 1+.

Sirota, David, and Christy Harvey. �They Knew: Despite the whitewash, we now know that the Bush administration was warned before the war that its Iraq claims were weak.� In These Times: Special Edition Sept.-Oct. 2004.

�To leave or not to leave? The news from Iraq is bad. America should stay, but stay to win.� The Economist 18 June 2005: 14.

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