Course: America Through Foreign Eyes
Modules:
Chapter 1: Course Overview, Chapter 2: America through Foreign Eyes: Introduction to Course, Chapter 3: Perceptions of Other Cultures: Generalizations, Essentialisms, and Stereotypes, Chapter 4: Student Approaches and Course Material
Chapter 1: Introduction: America Through African Eyes, Chapter 2: Africans Appropriating Americans: Elvis and the Chewa of Malawi, Chapter 3: Africans Appropriating Americans: Tupac Shakur in Sierra Leone, Chapter 4: Africans in America: America through Enslaved Peoples' Eyes, Chapter 5: Africans in America: Sudanese Refugees in America: Navigating America in the Twentieth Century, Chapter 6:  Africans in America: Africans and Race in America, Chapter 7:  African-Americans and Africans in Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah, American Civil Rights, and Ghanaian Independence, Chapter 8: African-Americans and Africans in Ghana: Slave Tourism: How West Africans see African-American Tourists, 2020 Update: Barack Obama through Kenyan Eyes
Chapter 1:  Introduction to the Chinese Cultural System, Chapter 2: First Contact with America and the West, Chapter 3: China's Entry Into the World: Opium, the Unequal Treaties and the Exclusion Act, Chapter 4: From Reform to Revolution, Chapter 5: The New Culture Movement, Chapter 6: Madame Chiang Kaishek: A Study in Chinese and American Interactions in the Republican Era, Chapter 7: America as Enemy and as Friend: The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution and the Ping-Pong Diplomacy, Chapter 8: China's Re-Entry into the World, Chapter 9: Taiwan and Hong Kong, Chapter 10: Voices from China and Taiwan, 2020 Update: Geopolitical Crises since 2015, Chen Lei, December 7, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao, Feng Yu, December 7, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao, Jorge Liu, August 17, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao, Li Zhonggui, August 13, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao
Chapter 1: France and America: Friend and Foe, Chapter 2: America: Land of Democracy, Chapter 3: America = Modernity, Chapter 4: American Capitalism: Mass Production, Mass Consumption, and Inequality, Chapter 5: Globalization and the Cultural Exception, Chapter 6: Racism and Xenophobia in the United States and France, Chapter 7: Religion and Secularism, Chapter 8: Franco-American Cultural Exchange: Art, Artists, and Art Patrons, Chapter 9: Intellectual Life: The American University, Chapter 9: Simone de Beauvoir at Rice, by Melissa Kean, Chapter 10: America as Hyperreality, 2020 Update: France Averts its Gaze, Marie Darrieussecq, May 20, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette, Eric Fassin, May 19, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette, Fabrice Morel, May 22, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette, Jean-Loup Chrétien, December 7, 2016, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette
Chapter 1: America through Mexican Eyes: Inseparable Histories, Chapter 2: The Gringo, Yankee, and American, Chapter 3: Immigration, Chapter 4: Racism, Chapter 5: Religion, Chapter 6: Temples of Knowledge: Education, Universities and Libraries, Chapter 7: Food, Chapter 8: American Women, Chapter 9: Capitalism and Modernity, Chapter 10: Democracy and Empire, 2020 Update: Post-2016: A low point in US-Mexico relations
Chapter 1: Russia and the United States: Competing Systems, Failed Dialogues, Chapter 2: Russian Serfs, American Slaves, Chapter 3: The Russian Revolution and American Modernity, Chapter 4: Soviet Hollywood, Chapter 5: Soviet Perceptions of Race in America, Chapter 6: The American National Exhibition, Moscow 1959, Chapter 7: The Cuban Missile Crisis, Chapter 8: Russian Immigrants in the United States, Chapter 9: America, the Model of Democracy: Russia in the 1990s
Chapter 1: Reversing the Gaze: Africa through American Eyes, Chapter 2: Reversing the Gaze: China through American Eyes, Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Fung, Chapter 3: Reversing the Gaze: France through American Eyes, Chapter 4: Reversing the Gaze: Mexico through American Eyes, Chapter 5: Reversing the Gaze: Russia through American Eyes, Rice Students Discuss America Through Foreign Eyes