NB: Most of the links below are to materials that Grinnell’s Libraries have purchased. They are not freely available online. You will need to access them while on campus OR through the Libraries website. If you need help gaining access, get help through library chat or emailing query@grinnell.edu or myself.
Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20885/20885-h/20885-h.htm.
PDF of selections for class: Antin-Promised-Land-excerpts
Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera. Third edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2007.
Get from PWeb course site: Library Resources > eReserves.
Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Benlloch, Vincent and Helen Eckhard. The Grinnell Guide to Writing, Research and Speaking. 2017.
Link to PDF (log in required)
Boggs, Grace Lee, and Robin D. G. Kelley. “From Philosophy to Politics.” Living for Change: An Autobiography, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis; London, 2016, pp. 21–44. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt1d9nhs6.6.
Brady, Mary Pat. “Border.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 34–37. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.11.
Bruner, Jerome. “Life as Narrative.” Social Research 71.3 (2004): 691-710.
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/527352/pdf
Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007.
http://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/
Burgett, Bruce, and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. Second edition. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
https://libweb.grinnell.edu/vufind/Record/.b23748849
Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” University of Chicago Legal Forum 1989 (1989): 139-168.
http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/uchclf1989&collection=journals&id=143
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Salt Lake City: Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 2006.
PDF of selections for class: Douglass-Chapters1-7-11
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm
Eggers, Dave. Zeitoun. San Francisco: Mcsweeney’s Books, 2009.
Ferguson, Roderick A. “Race.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 207–211. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.58.
Franklin, Benjamin, and Peter J. Conn. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Penn Reading Project ed. Philadelphia, PA: PENN/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
https://libweb.grinnell.edu/vufind/Record/.b23493707
–open ebook, download pdf of main text
Gruesz, Kirsten Silva. “America.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 21–25. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.8.
Jacobs, Harriet A. 1813-1897., and Lydia Maria Child. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written By Herself. Salt Lake City: Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, 2004.
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11030/pg11030-images.html
Johnson, Walter. “Slavery.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 224–227. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.63.
Luibhéid, Eithne. “Immigration.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 125–129. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.36.
Peterson, Carla L. “Family.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition. Eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
http://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/family/
Simpson, Erik. “Five Ways of Looking at a Thesis.” Grinnell College. http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~simpsone/Connections/Documents/fiveways.pdf
Smallwood, Stephanie. “Freedom.” Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition, edited by Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler, 2nd ed., NYU Press, 2014, pp. 111–115. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287j69.32.
Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson. Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives. 2nd ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
https://libweb.grinnell.edu/vufind/Record/.b23523876
Wright, Richard. Black Boy. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006.
