Week 1: Introduction, theoretical approaches to ethnicity
-David Theo Goldberg & John Solomos, eds., "General Introduction"? to A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (2002)
-Werner Sollors, "Ethnicity and Race"? in Goldberg/ Solomos, eds., A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (2002)
-Ellis Cashmore, "Ethnicity'? in Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies (2004)
-Stephen May, "Multiculturalism"? in Goldberg/ Solomos, eds., A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies (2002)
-Max Weber, "Ethnic Groups"? (1922) in Sollors, ed., Theories of Ethnicity (1996)
-Robert E. Park, "Human Migration and the Marginal Man"? (1928) in Sollors, ed., Theories of Ethnicity (1996)
Week 2: US history of immigration, race, ethnicity
-Ronald H. Bayor, ed., The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America (2004) (selected chapters)
-"Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896"? in Bayor, ed., The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America (2004)
-Horace M. Kallen, "Democracy versus the Melting-Pot: A Study of American Nationality"? (1915) in Sollors, ed., Theories of Ethnicity (1996)
-Franz Boas, "The Question of Racial Purity"? (1924) in Bayor, ed., The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America (2004)
Weeks 3 – 4: Difference, stereotype, self-hatred
-Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Mask (1952) (selected chapters)
-Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive (1946) (Anti-Semite and Jew) (excerpts)
-Sander Gilman, "The Jewish Nose: Are Jews White? Or, the History of the Nose Job"? in Silberstein/ Cohn, eds., The Other in Jewish Thought and History (1994)
-Homi Bhabha, "The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism"? in The Location of Culture (1994)
-Aharon Appelfeld, The Conversion (1993) (novel)
Weeks 5-6: Jewish immigration to US: history, autobiography, fiction
-Oscar Handlin, "American Jewry" in Kedourie, The Jewish World (1979)
-Hasia Diner, The Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000 (2004) (selected chapters)
-Jonathan D. Sarna, American Judaism: A History (2004) (selected chapters)
-Abraham Cahan, "Yekl" (1896) and "The Imported Bridegroom" (1898) (stories)
-Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) (autobiography)
-Anzia Yezierska, Hungry Hearts (1920) (selected stories)
Week 7: Legacy of the Holocaust
-Jean Améry, At the Mind’s Limit: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities (1966) (selected essays)
-Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved (1986) (selected essays)
-Geoffrey Hartman, "The Longest Shadow" in The Longest Shadow (1996)
-Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life (1999) (excerpts)
-Cynthia Ozick, The Shawl (1989) (novel)
Weeks 8-9: Jewish thought on exile vs home/ US vs. Israel
-Arnold Eisen, "Exile" in Cohen/ Mendes-Flohr, eds., Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought (1987)
-Arnold Eisen, Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming (1986) (excerpts)
-Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Booking Passage: Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (2000) (excerpts)
-George Steiner, "A Kind of Survivor" in Language and Silence (1977)
-George Steiner "Our Homeland, the Text," Salmagundi 66 (Winter/Spring 1985)
-Daniel Boyarin & Jonathan Boyarin, "Generation: Diaspora and the Ground of Jewish Identity," Critical Inquiry 19, 4 (1993)
-Philip Roth, The Counterlife (1987) (novel)
Week 10: Wandering as negative stereotype?
-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena (1851) (selected essay)
-Edna Ferber, A Peculiar Treasure (1940), chaper 1 (autobiography)
-Gilles Deleuze, "Nomad Thought" in Allison, ed., The New Nietzsche (1977)
-Jacques Derrida, Shibboleth in Hartman/ Budick, eds., Midrash and Literature (1986)
-Geoffrey Hartmann, "Meaning, Error, Text" in Minor Prophecies: The Literary Essay in the Culture Wars (1991)
