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## *Synthesis*

* U.S. in the World: Empire Making, Capitalism, and the Politics of Identity and Citizenship
* Twentieth-Century U.S. History: Transnational Connections and the Rights Revolution
* The Transnational Turn: Re-Interpreting Twentieth-Century U.S. History
* Inherent Tensions: Race and Democratic Ideals in Twentieth-Century American History

## *Themes*

* Immigration, Ethnicity, and Race
* Civil Rights and Black International Politics
* Cold War Politics and U.S. "Development" in the World and At Home
* Social Movements

## Chronology/Key Events

* 1890-1910s
* 1910-1930s
* 1940s-1950s
* 1960s-1980s

## *Reading List*

**Migration, Immigration, and the Politics of Identity**

Bald, Vivek. *Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Blower, Brooke. *Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Gugliermo, Thomas A. *White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890 – 1945*. New York: Oxford, 2004.

Jacobson, Matthew Frye. *Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Aboard, 1876-1917*. Hill and Wang, 2001.

Putnam, Lara. *Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

#### **Empire, "Development" and the Cold War**

Borstellman, Thomas. *The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Brands, Hal. *Latin America's Cold War*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Elkbadh, David. *The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Immerwahr, Daniel. *Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Klein, Christina. *Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961*. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

Kramer, Paul A. *The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Rotter, Andrew. *Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964*. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Tyrell, Ian. *Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013.

Zimmerman, Andrew. *Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.

#### **Civil Rights**

Cha-Jua, Sundiata Keita, and Clarence Lang. “The "Long Movement" as Vampire: Temporal and Spatial Fallacies in Recent Black Freedom.” The Journal of African American History 92, no. 2 (Spring, 2007): 265-288.

Ewing, Adam. *The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Gaines, Kevin. *American Africans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2006.

Gilmore, Glenda, *Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950*. W.W. Norton Press, 2009.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past.” Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005).

Immerwahr, Daniel. "Caste or Colony?: Indianizing Race in the United States," Modern Intellectual History 4 (2007): 275-301.

Joseph, Peniel. *Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America*. New York: Henry Hold and Co., 2006.

Kelley, Robin G. *Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression*.Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

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McGuire. Danielle L. *At The Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance – A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power*. New York: Vintage, 2011.

Morris, Aldon, *Origins of the Civil Rights Movemen*t. Free Press, 1986.

Murch, Donna. *Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California*. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Payne, Charles M. *I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle*. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Plummer, Brenda Gayle. *In Search of Power: African Americans in the Era of Decolonization, 1956-1974*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Sugrue, Thomas J. *Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.* New York: Random House, 2008.

Tyson, Timothy B. *Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power*. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Von Eschen, Penny. *Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937- 1957*. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.

#### **Social Movements – From the Labor to Women’s Rights**

Anderson, Terry H. *The Movement and The Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Chauncey, George. *Gay New York Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940*. New York: Basic Books. 1994.

Cohen, Robert, *When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Cohen, Lizabeth. *Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939.* Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Evans, Sara. *Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left.* Vintage, 1980.

Gordon, Linda; Cobble, Dorothy Sue; Henry, Astrid. *Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements*. Liveright, 2014.

Isserman, Maurice, *If I had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left*. Basic Books, 1987.

Jay, Karla, and Allen Young, eds. *Out of the Closets: Voices of Gay Liberation*. New York: NYU Press, 1972.

Matson, Kevin. *Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy*. State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

Martin, Klimke. *The Other Alliance: Student Protest in West Germany and the United States in the Global Sixties*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.

McGerr, Michael. *A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870 – 1920*. New York: Oxford, 2003.

McGirr, Lisa. *Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right*. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Miller, James A. *Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994.

Rorabaugh, W.J. *Berkeley at War: The 1960s*. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Sellers, Christopher. *Crabgrass Crucible: Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America*. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Suri, Jeremi. *Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente*. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Tzu-Chun Wu, Judy. *Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism during the Vietnam Era*. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.