Trump Syllabus 2.0: A Supplementary Reading List
This supplementary reading list is designed to augment the Trump Syllabus 2.0 by N.D.B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain. In keeping with the spirit of the Trump Syllabus 2.0., the additional sources below represent a diverse authorship and subject matter. In many ways, it is designed to frame an alternative, yet central and foundational list of texts to foster an innovative pedagogy, emphasizing the centrality of race, class, gender and difference as operative and central as opposed to peripheral sites for the explanation and understanding of American society. While extensive lip service has been paid to these categories, as the Chronicle’s Trump 101 syllabus demonstrated, much work remains to be done in academe to address these issues. This statement extends to the broader society. The suggested readings below span the nation’s history from its origins up to the contemporary moment. This supplementary list is not designed as a definitive and static production rather it is a fluid and open source document. To that end, we welcome your comments, thoughts and most importantly, your additions.
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Origins, Intellectual Genealogies, and Ideological Constructs
- Samir Amin, Eurocentricism: Modernity, Religion and Democracy A Critique of Eurocentricism and Culturalism (Monthly Review, 2010)
- Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism (Basic, 2014)
- David Blight, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Belknap, 2002)
- H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (Anchor, 2011)
- Michael Broniski, A Queer History of the United States (Beacon, 2012)
- Saul Cornell, The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (UNC, 1999)
- Sarah Deutsch, No Separate Refuge; Culture, Class and Gender on the Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest, 1880-1940 (Oxford, 1987)
- Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon, 2015)
- Gerald Horne, The Counter Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of American (NYU, 2014)
- Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and The Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 (Chicago, 1994)
- Clarence Lusane, The Black History of the White House (City Lights, 2011)
- Neil Maher, Nature’s New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement (Oxford, 2007)
- Walter D. Mignolio, Local Histories/Global Designs, Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledge and Border Thinking (Princeton, 2000)
- Michelle Mitchell, Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics Racial Destiny after Reconstruction (UNC, 2004)
- Kim Nielson, A Disability History of the United States (Beacon, 2013)
- Gary Y. Okhiro, Margins & Mainstream: Asians in American History and Culture (Washington, 2014)
- Annette Gordon Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton, 2008)
- Manisha Sinha, The Counterrevolution of Slavery, Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina (UNC, 2002)
- Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale, 2016)
- Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: From Jefferson to Lincoln (W.W. Norton, 2006)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825
- William Jennings Bryan, “A Cross of Gold: A Speech Given at the Democratic National Convention, 1896
- Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains
Race, Class, Gender and Difference
- Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control (Verso, 1994)
- Mia Bay, Farah Jasmin Griffin, Martha S. Jones, and Barbara D. Savage, eds., Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (UNC, 2015)
- Francisco Bethencourt, Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Princeton, 2015)
- Les Black and John Solomos, ed., Theories of Race and Racism: A Reader (Routledge, 2000)
- Edward Blum, Reforging the White Republic: Race, Religion and American Nationalism, 1865-1898 (LSU, 2005)
- Iris Bohnet, What Works: Gender Equality by Design (Harvard, 2016)
- Bettye Collier-Thomas, Jesus, Jobs, and Justice: African American Women and Religion (Knopf, 2010)
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Power of Empowerment (Routledge, 2008)
- John D’ Emilo, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Press, 2003)
- Gloria Hull, ed., But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men (Feminist Press, 1993)
- Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America (Viking 2016)
- Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Duke, 2005)
- Ira Katzelson, When Affirmative Action Was White: The Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth Century America (W. W. Norton, 2005)
- Chana Kai Lee, For Freedom’s Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Illinois, 1999)
- George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition (Temple, 2006)
- Joanna Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard, 2004)
- Cherie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, The Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Women of Color (New York, 2015)
- Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States (Routledge, 2014)
- Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (Norton, 2016)
- Barbara Ransby, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (UNC, 2005)
- Eduardo Bonilla Silva, Racism Without Racists: Color Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013)
- Audrey Smedley, Race in North America: Origin and Evolution of a Worldview (Westview, 2011)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- Anita: Speaking Truth to Power. Directed by Freida Lee Mock (Samuel Goldwyn Films, 2013)
- Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice (Films Media Group, 1989)
- The Chinese in California, 1850-1925
- The History of Jim Crow
Religion and Society
- Patrick Allitt, Religion in America Since 1945 (Columbia, 2003)
- Karen Armstrong, Islam: A Short History (Modern Library, 2002)
- Roger Bruns, Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big Time American Evangelism (W.W. Norton, 1982)
- Edward Curtis, The Call of Bilal: Islam in the African Diaspora Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks (UNC, 2014)
- Darren Dochuk, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism (W.W. Norton, 2012)
- Seth Dowland, Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right (Pennsylvania, 2015)
- Timothy Gloege, Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business and Modern Evangelism (UNC, 2015)
- Gilbert Herdt, Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight Over Sexual Rights (NYU, 2009)
- Janie Irvine, Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States (California, 2004)
- Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Monkey Trials and America’s Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion (Basic, 2006)
- Andrew Preston, Bruce Shulman, and Julian Zelizer, eds., Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in Modern America (Pennsylvania, 2015)
- Matthew Avery Sutton, American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelism (Belknap, 2014)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- Arab American Institute
- Association of Religion Data Archives
- P.J. Bearman, et al., Encyclopedia of Islam (Brill, 2016)
- Religious Landscape Study: Pew Research Center
Civil Rights and Liberties
- Stephen A. Berry, The Jim Crow Routine: Everyday Performances of Race. Civil Rights and Segregation in Mississippi (UNC, 2015)
- Daniel M. Cobb, Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887 (UNC 2015)
- David Cole, Terrorism and the Constitution (New Press, 2006)
- Martin Duberman, Stonewall (Dutton, 1993)
- Ieshia Evans, “I Wasn’t Afraid. I took a stand in Baton Rouge because enough is enough,” The Guardian, July 22, 2016.
- Glenda Gilmore, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (W.W. Norton, 2009)
- David Harris, Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Won’t Work (Free Press, 2002)
- Nat Hentoff, The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (Seven Stories, 2003)
- Jonathan Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (UNC 2015)
- Blair Kelley, Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (UNC, 2010)
- Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet (Random House, 1964)
- Daniel Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right (St. Martin’s, 2003)
- Ian P. Haney Lopez, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Harvard, 2003)
- John Skrenty, The Minority Rights Revolution (Belknap, 2002)
- Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (Penguin, 2014)
- Angela Stroud, Good Guys with Guns: The Appeal and Consequences of Concealed Carry (UNC, 2016)
- Phillipa Strum, When the Nazis Came to Town: Freedom for the Speech We Hate (Kansas, 1999)
- Robert Whittaker, On the Laps of the Gods: The Red Summer of 1919 and the Struggle for Justice that Remade a Nation (Broadway, 2009)
- Amy Louise Wood, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 (UNC, 2011)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Milk. Directed by Gus Vant Sant (Focus Features, 2008)
- Free Speech Movement Digital Archives
- Red Scare
The Worlds Within and Beyond Our Shores
- Carol Anderson, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and Colonial Liberation 1941-1960 (Cambridge, 2014)
- Vivek Bald, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard, 2013)
- Deborah Cohen, Bracero: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar U.S. and Mexico (UNC, 2013)
- Edwidge Danticat, The Butterfly’s Way: Voices form the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States (Soho, 2001)
- W.E.B. DuBois, The World and Africa (orig. 1949; Oxford, 2014)
- W.E.B. DuBois, Color and Democracy (Kraus, 1975)
- Mark Juergensmeyer, ed., Thinking Globally: A Global Studies Reader (California, 2014)
- Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon, 2007)
- Paul Kramer, The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States and The Philippines (UNC, 2006)
- Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality Critical Perspectives on Empire (Cambridge, 2008)
- Jana K. Lipman, Guantanomo: A Working Class History Between Empire and Revolution (California, 2009)
- Douglass Little, American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945 (UNC 2008)
- Mireya Loza, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought For Racial, Sexual and Political Freedom (UNC, 2016)
- Erez Manela, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford, 2007)
- Mark Mazower, Governing the World: The History of an Idea, 1815 to the Present (Penguin, 2013)
- Louis Perez, The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography (UNC, 1998)
- Brenda Gayle Plummer, Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs (UNC, 1996)
- Brenda Gayle Plummer, A Search for Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974 (Cambridge, 2012)
- Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism, 1915-1940 (UNC, 2001)
- Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets (Vintage, 1967)
- Arne Odd Westad, The Global Cold War (Cambridge, 2005)
- Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (Vintage, 2011)
- Alex Lubin and Marwan M. Kraidy eds., American Studies Encounters the Middle East (UNC, 2016)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
- The Battle of Algiers, Directed by Giilio Pontecorvo (Rizzoli, Rialto Pictures, 1967)
- The Great Migration
- The World of 1898: The Spanish American War
Contemporary Representations
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (New Press, 2012)
- Derrick Bell, And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice (Basic, 1989)
- Stephen L. Carter, Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby (Basic Books, 1992)
- David L. Chappell, Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King (Random House, 2014)
- Lisabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (Vintage, 2003)
- Tanisha Ford, Liberated Threads: Black Women. Style and the Global Politics of Style (UNC, 2015)
- Pamela Haag, The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (Basic, 2016)
- Diana L. Hayes, Forged in the Fiery Furnace: African American Spirituality (Orbis, 2016)
- bell hooks, Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism (South End, 1981)
- Sarah Jaffee, Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt (Nation, 2016)
- Joy James, ed., States of Confinement: Policing. Detention and Prisons (St. Martin’s Press, 2000)
- Peniel Joseph, Wait Till the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (Holt, 2007)
- Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon Press, 2011)
- Glenn Loury, The Anatomy of Inequality (Harvard, 2002)
- Monica Miller, Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (Duke, 2009)
- Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman, eds., That’s The Joint: The Hip Hop Reader (Routledge, 2011)
- Michael L. Ondaatje, Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America (Pennsylvania, 2010)
- Joseph A. Palermo, The Eighties (Pearson, 2012)
- Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner, 2008)
- Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (Harper, 1991)
- Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North (Random House, 2008)
- Toure, Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? (Free Press, 2011)
- Calvin Trillin, Jackson, 1964 and Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting Race in America (Random House, 2016)
- David Dante Troutt, ed. After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meanings of Katrina (New Press, 2006)
- Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race (Scribner, 2016)
- Cornel West, Race Matters (Vintage Books, 1994)
- Derrick E. White, The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970’s (Florida, 2011)
- Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights (Harvard, 1991)
Primary Sources and Multimedia
- Dandy Lion: (Re) Articulating Black Masculine Identity (MOCP) April 6-July 2015
- Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Directed by Bennett Singer and Nancy Kates (Sundance, 2003)
- Ella Baker, “Bigger than a Hamburger”
- Chisholm 72. Directed by Shola Lynch (20th century Fox, 2004)
- Dark Girls Directed by D. Channsin and Bill Duke (2012)
- Fire in Babylon, Directed by Stevan Riley (Cowboy Films/ Passion Picture, 2012)
- Thomas Allen Harris, Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (Chimpanzee production, 2014)
- Martin Luther King, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community
- Paris is Burning, Directed by Jennie Livingston (Lionsgate, 1990)
- Stephen G. Hall and The Trump Syllabus–Interview on Campaign Context
- The Black Power Mixtapes 1967-1975 Directed by Goran Olsson (MPI Home Video, 2011)
- Laura Waterman Wittstock and David Bancroft, We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement (Minnesota, 2013)
Dr. Stephen G. Hall is the Program Coordinator of History at Alcorn State University. He is the author of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (UNC Press, 2009). His second book project is entitled Global Visions: African American Historians Engage the World, 1885-1960. He is also in the process of editing a collection entitled Stories of the Race: African American History and Historiography in the 19th, 20th, and 21st Centuries (under contract with Routledge Press). Follow him on Twitter @historianspeaks
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