Semester

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This semester (Fall 2004), the following readings were assigned:

John Berger, Ways of Seeing

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism

Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life

Dick Hebdige, Subculture

Janice Radway, Reading the Romance

Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers

Henry Giroux, et al, Counternarratives

In addition, selections from the following works were collected into a class reader:

Marx and Engels, "The Communist Manifesto", "The German Ideology"

Marx, "Capital"

Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte"

Marx, "A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy"

Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

Theodore Adorno, and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Englightenment as Mass Deception"

Louis Althusser, "Contradiction and Overdetermination: Notes for an Investigation", and "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward an Investigation)"

Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature

Gramsci, "State and Civil Society" from Prison Notebooks

Stuart Hall, "Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity", "Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms", "Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates"

Mouffe, "Hegemony and Ideology in Gramsci"

Tricia Rose, Black Noise

and more...which will be added shortly.