SANA North Americanist Bibliography

At the AAA 1997 meetings the SANA Graduate Student Caucus decided to develop a bibliography intended for graduate students as they prepare for comprehensive exams. It may also be useful for course preparation and beginning reading lists for post-doctoral scholars. We gathered bibliographies from graduate students and syllabi from professors. I (Jenell Williams Paris, Bethel College) compiled the lists into this bibliography.

This bibliography is not comprehensive. It includes the categories and citations which I received. So, for instance, sections on African-Americans and the Caribbean are fairly well developed, while sections on Asians and Latinos are fairly slim. There is no section for Native Americans in the United States, though I did receive a small section on Native Canadians. Also, a note that while most authors are trained as anthropologists, some are from other disciplines. I included geographers, historians, sociologists and others who are important to dialogue in a given area.

I think this bibliography will be best used as a guide for students entering the literature for the first time. It points to key works and key scholars in various areas, and if students use these citations as a guide, they will soon enter into a fuller scholarly conversation within their area.

I hope it is helpful! You are free to copy and distribute this bibliography. I welcome any comments.

• Arensberg, Conrad — 1955 American Communities. American Anthropologist 57:1143-1162.
• Auge, Marc — 1998 A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford U Press.
• Borneman, John — 1995 American Anthropology as Foreign Policy. American Anthropologist 97(4): 663-672.
• Cole, Johnetta — 1988 Anthropology for the Nineties: Introductory Readings. New York: The Free Press.
• DiLeonardo, Micaela — 1998 Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity.
• Dorst, John D. — The Written Suburb: An American Site, an Ethnographic Dilemma. Philadelphia: U Pennsylvania Press.
• DuBois, Cora — 1955 The Dominant Value Profile of American Culture. American Anthropologist 57: 1232-1239.
• Eddy, Elizabeth and William Partridge, eds. — 1978 Applied Anthropology in America. New York: Columbia U Press.
• Errington, Frederick — 1987 Reflexivity Deflected: The Festival of Nations as an American Cultural Performance. American Ethnologist 14:654-667.
• Fitzgerald, Frances — 1986 Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures. NY: Simon and Schuster.
• Forman, Shepard, ed. — 1995 Diagnosing America: Anthropology and Public Engagement. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press.
• Fox, Richard — 1991 Recapturing Anthropology. Santa Fe: SAR Press.
• Fox, Richard and Robert B. Westbrook, eds. — 1997 In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship. New York: Cambridge U Press.
• Goldschmidt, Walter — 1995 The Unfamiliar in the Familiar. NAPA Bulletin 16: Insider Anthropology. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
• Hall, Peter Dobkin — 1982 The Organization of American Culture, 1700-1900. New York: NYU Press.
• Hallowell, A. Irving — 1976 The Beginnings of Anthropology in America. In Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
• Harrison, Faye, ed. — 1991 Decolonizing Anthropology. Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association.
• Henry, Jules — 1974 A Theory for an Anthropological Analysis of American Culture. In Anthropology and American Life. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, Inc.
• Holland, Dorothy and Andrew Kipnis — 1994 Metaphors for Embarrassment and Stories of Exposure. Ethos 22:3:316-342.
• Hymes, Dell, ed. — 1974 Reinventing Anthropology. NY: Vintage.
• Jones, Delmos J. — 1970 Towards a Native Anthropology. Human Organization 29:4:251-259.
• Kimball, Solon T. — 1955 Problems of Studying American Culture. American Anthropologist 57: 1131-1142.
• Lofgren, Ovar — 1989 Anthropologizing America. American Ethnologist 16: 366-74.
• Lutz, Catherine and Jane Collins — 1993 Reading National Geographic. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Marcus, George and Michael Fischer — 1986 Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Mead, Margaret — 1965 And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America. New York: Morrow.
• Messerschmidt, ed. — 1981 Anthropologists at Home in North America. Cambridge U Press.
• Moffatt, Michael — 1992 Ethnographic Writing About American Culture. In Annual Review of Anthropology.
• Narayan, Kirin — 1993 How Native is a “Native” Anthropologist? American Anthropologist 95: 3: 671-686.
• Ortner, Sherry — 1991 Reading America: Preliminary Notes on Class and Culture. In Recapturing Anthropology. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.
• Peacock, James — 1994 American Cultural Values: Disorders and Challenges. In Diagnosing America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press.
• Powdermaker, Hortense — 1951 Hollywood: The Dream Factory. London: Seeker and Warburg.
• Rappaport, Roy A. — 1994 Disorders of our Own. In Diagnosing America. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press.
• Spindler, George and Louise Spindler — 1983 Anthropologists View American Culture. In Annual Review of Anthropology.
• Stocking, George, ed. — 1989 Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
• Strathern, Marilyn — 1987 The Limits of Auto-Ethnography. In Anthropology at Home. Andrew Jackson, ed. London: Tavistock.
• Trouillot, Michel-Rolph — 1990 Good-Day Columbus: Silences, Power and Public History (1492-1892).
• Varenne, Herve, ed. — 1977 Americans Together; Structured Diversity in a Midwestern Town. New York: Teacher’s College Press. | 1986 Symbolizing America. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press.
• Warner, Lloyd — 1959 The Living and the Dead: A Study of the Symbolic Life of Americans. New Haven: Yale University Press. | 1963 Yankee City. New Haven: Yale U Press.
• Weiner, Annette — 1996 Culture and our Discontents. American Anthropologist 97(1): 14-21.
• Whisnant, David E. — 1983 All that is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press.
• Wolf, Eric — 1975 American Anthropologists and American Society. In The Nacirema: Readings on American Culture. Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
• Zinn, Maxine Boca — 1979 Field Research in Minority Communities. Social Problems 27: 209-219.

• Anderson, Kay — 1988 Cultural Hegemony and the Race Definition Process in Chinatown, Vancouver, 1880-1980. Environment and Planning: Society and Space 6: 127-149.
• Chock, Phyllis Pease — 1987 The Irony of Stereotypes: Toward an Anthropology of Ethnicity. Cultural Anthropology 2: 347-368.
• Gregory, Steve and Roger Sanjek, eds. — 1994 Race. New York: Cornell U Press.
• Harrison, Faye — 1995 The Persistent Power of Race in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism. Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 47-74.
• Myrdal, Gunnar — 1944 An American Dilemma. New York: Harper.
• Sollors, Werner — 1986 Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford U Press. | 1989 The Invention of Ethnicity. New York and Oxford: Oxford U Press.
• Steinberg, Stephen — 1989 The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity and Class in America. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Turner, Terence — 1993 Anthropology and Multiculturalism. Cultural Anthropology. 411-29.
• Williams, Brackette — 1991 A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race to Nation Across Ethnic Terrain. Annual Review of Anthropology 18: 401-444.

• Bourgois, Philippe — 1995 In Search of Respect. New York: Basic Books.
• Darder, Antonia and Rodolfo D. Torres, ed. — 1998 The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers.
• Rodriguez, Clara — 1994 Challenging Racial Hegemony: Puerto Ricans in the US. In Race. Gregory, S. and R. Sanjek, eds.
• Zavella, Patricia — 1993 Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with ‘Chicana’ Informants. Frontiers 8(3):54-77.

• Kyeyoung, Park — 1996 The Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black Korean Tension in America. American Anthropologist 98(3).
• Lowe, Lisa — 1996 Immigrants Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics. Duke U Press.
• Pitkow, Marlene — 1987 A Temple for Tourists in New York’s Chinatown. Journal of American Culture 10:107-114.

• Abrahams, Roger — 1963 Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore From the Streets of Philadelphia. Chicago: Aldine publishing Co.
• Baker, Lee — 1994 The Location of Franz Boas within the African American Struggle. Critique of Anthropology.
• Bell, M.J. — 1983 The World From Brown’s Lounge: An Ethnography of Black Middle Class Play. Urbana: U of Illinois Press.
• Blauner, Robert — 1970 Black Culture: Myth or Reality? In Afro-American Anthropology. N. Whitten and J. Szwed, eds.
• Davis, Allison, Burleigh G. Gardner and Mary R. Gardner — 1941 Deep South: A Social Anthropological Study of Caste and Class. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Dollard, John — 1937 Caste and Class in a Southern Town. New Haven, CT: Yale U Press.
• Drake, St. Clair and Horace R. Cayton — 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Du Bois, W.E.B. — 1899 The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. New York: Shocken Books.
• Frazier, E. Franklin — 1939 The Negro Family in the United States. Chicago: U of Chicago Press. | 1949 The Negro in the United States. New York: Macmillan. | 1957 Black Bourgeoisie. New York: Collier.
• Gregory, Steven — 1992 The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African-American Community. American Ethnologist 19(2): 255-274. | 1993 Race, Rubbish, and Resistance. Cultural Anthropology 8(1): 24-48.
• Gwaltney, John — 1980 Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America. New York: Vintage Books.
• Hannerz, Ulf — 1969 Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community. New York: Columbia U Press.
• Harrison, Faye — 1988 Introduction: An African Diaspora Perspective on Urban Anthropology. Urban Anthropology 17(2-3): 111-142.
• Herskovits, Melville J. — 1941 The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston: Beacon.
• Hurston, Zora Neale — 1935 Mules and Men. NY: Perennial Library.
• Jones, Jacqueline — 1995 Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family. New York: Random House.
• Liebow, Elliot — 1967 Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston: Little, Brown.
• Mintz, Sidney and Richard Price — 1992 The Birth of African-American Culture: An Anthropological Perspective. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Powdermaker, Hortense — 1939 After Freedom: A Cultural Study of the Deep South. New York: Viking Press.
• Rose, Tricia — 1994 Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. NH: Wesleyan U Press.
• Stack, Carol — 1974 All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community. New York: Harper and Row.
• Valentine, Bettylou — 1978 Hustling and Other Hard Work: Lifestyles in the Ghetto. New York: The Free Press.
• Valentine, Charles A. — 1972 Racism and Recent Anthropological Studies of US Blacks. Human Organization 31: 95-98.

• Di Leonardo, Micaela — 1984 Varieties of Ethnic Experience. Ithaca: Cornell U Press.
• Dominguez, Virginia R. — 1986 White by Definition: Social Classification in Creole Louisiana. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers U Press.
• Frankenberg, Ruth — 1993 White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press.
• Lynd, Robert and Helen Merrill — 1929 Middletown. Harcourt Brace.
• Peltz, Rakhmiel — 1997 From Immigrant to Ethnic Culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. CA: Stanford U Press.
• Roediger, David R. — 1991 The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso.
• Sacks, Karen Brodkin — 1995 How did Jews Become White Folks? In Race. Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek, eds.
• Spiro, Melford E. — 1955 The Acculturation of American Ethnic Groups. American Anthropologist 57: 1240-1252.

• Austin, Diane J. — 1984 Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.
• Basch, Linda G. — 1987 The Politics of Caribbeanization: Vincentians and Grenadians in New York. In Caribbean Life in New York City.
• Chevannes, Barry, ed. — 1998 Rastafari and Other African-Caribbean Worldviews. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers.
• Hurston, Zora Neale — 1938 Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica. NY: Harper & Row.
• Kasinitz, Philip — 1992 Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U Press.
• Laguerre, Michel S. — 1982 Urban Life in the Caribbean: A Study of a Haitian Community. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.
• Mintz, Sidney and Sally Price, eds. — 1985 Caribbean Contours. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins U Press.
• Stewart, John O. — 1989 Drinkers, Drummer, and Decent Folk: Ethnographic Narratives of Village Trinidad. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• Sutton, Constance and E.M. Chaney, eds. — 1987 Caribbean Life in New York City: Sociocultural Dimensions. New York: Center for Migration Studies.
• Williams, Brackette F. — 1991 Stains on My Name, War in My Veins: Guyana and the Politics of Cultural Struggle. Durham, NC: Duke U Press.
• Wilson, Peter — 1973 Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean. New Haven, CT: Yale U Press.

• Balshem, Martha — 1993 Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press.
• Brown, Peter J. — 1998 Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.
• Carlson, Robert — 1996 The Political Economy of AIDS Among Drug Users in the U.S. American Anthropologist.
• Davis, Leonard J., ed. — 1997 The Disability Studies Reader. New York: Routledge.
• Hoffert, Sylvia D. — 1989 Private Matters: American Attitudes toward Childbearing and Infant Nurture in the Urban North, 1800-1860. Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois Press.
• Martin, Emily — 1994 Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture: From the Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS. Beacon.
• McGuire, Meredith B. — 1988 Ritual Healing in Suburban America. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers U Press.

• Auletta, Ken — 1982 The Underclass. New York: Random House.
• Jencks, Christopher and Paul Peterson, eds. — 1991 The Urban Underclass. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press.
• Katz, Michael B. — 1989 The Undeserving Poor. New York: Pantheon. | 1995 Improving Poor People. Princeton: Princeton U Press.
• Leacock, Eleanor, ed. — 1971 The Culture of Poverty: A Critique. New York: Simon and Schuster.
• Lewis, Oscar — 1966 The Culture of Poverty. Scientific American 215(4):19-25. | 1966 La Vida. New York: Random House.
• Nash, June C. — 1989 From Tanktown to High Tech. Albany: SUNY.
• Pappas, G. — 1989 The Magic City: Unemployment in a Working Class Community. Ithaca: Cornell U Press.
• Peiss, Kathy — 1986 Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple U Press.
• Stacey, Judy — 1990 Brave New Families. NY: Basic Books.
• Susser, Ida — 1982 Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood. New York: Oxford. | 1996 The Construction of Poverty and Homelessness in US Cities. Annual Review of Anthropology 25.
• Valentine, Charles — 1968 Culture and Poverty: Critique and Counter-Proposals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Whyte, William Foote — 1943 Street Corner Society. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Wilson, William Julius — 1987 The Truly Disadvantaged. Chicago: U of Chicago Press. | 1996 When Work Disappears. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

• Goldschmidt, Walter — 1955 Social Class and the Dynamics of Status in America. American Anthropologist 57: 1209-1217.
• Kottak, Conrad Phillip — 1990 Prime-time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture. Belmont: Wadsworth, Inc.
• Marcus, George with Peter Dobkin Hall — 1994 Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America. Boulder: Westview Press.
• McCarthy, Kathleen D. — 1991 Women’s Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Mills, C. Wright — 1956 The Power Elite. New York: Oxford U Press.
• Newman, Katherine S. — 1988 Falling From Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the American Middle Class. New York: Vintage Books.
• Perin, Constance — 1988 Belonging in America: Reading Between the Lines. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press.
• Veblen, Thorstein — 1953 The Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: New American Library.
• Weatherford, J. McIver — 1985 Tribes on the Hill: The US Congress Rituals and Realities. New York: Bergin & Garvey.

• Collier, Jane and Sylvia Yanagisako, eds. — 1987 Gender and Kinship. Palo Alto: Stanford.
• DiLeonardo, Micaela — 1987 The Female World of Cards and Holidays. Signs 12: 440-453.
• Ginsburg, Faye and Anna Tsing — 1990 Uncertain Terms; Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Boston: Beacon.
• Rapp, Rayna — 1981 Family and Class in Contemporary America. In Rethinking the Family. Longman.
• Schneider, David — 1968 American Kinship: A Cultural Account. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
• Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko — 1979 Family and Household: The Analysis of Domestic Groups. Annual Review of Anthropology 8: 161-205.

• DiLeonardo, Micaela, ed. — 1991 Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge: Feminist Anthropology in the Postmodern Era. Berkeley: U of California Press.
• Ginsburg, Faye and Rayna Rapp, eds. — 1989 Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Berkeley: U of California. | 1995 Conceiving the New World Order. Berkeley: U of California Press.
• Lamphere, Louise — 1986 From Working Daughters to Working Mothers. American Ethnologist 12: 118-130.
• Martin, Emily — 1987 The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction. Boston: Beacon.
• Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist and Louise Lamphere, eds. — 1974 Women, Culture, and Society. Stanford: Stanford U Press.
• Sanday, Peggy Reeves and Ruth Gallagher Goodenough, eds. — 1990 Beyond the Second Sex. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press.
• Tilly, Louise A., and Joan W. Scott — 1978 Women, Work, and Family. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

• Bell, David and Gill Valentine — 1995 Mapping Desire. New York: Routledge.
• Duggan, Lisa — 1994 Queering the State. Social Text 39:1-14.
• Faderman, Lillian — 1991 Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin Books.
• Kennedy, Elizabeth and Madeline Davis — 1993 Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community. New York: Penguin Books.
• Leap, William — 1996 Word is Out: Gay Men’s English. Mpls: U of Minnesota Press.
• Lewin, Ellen — 1993 Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture. Ithaca: Cornell U Press.
• Newton, Esther — 1993 Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town. Boston: Beacon Press.
• Weston, Kath — 1991 Families We Choose. Columbia U Press.

• Castells, Manuel — 1983 The City and the Grassroots. Berkeley: U of California Press.
• Cronon, William — 1991 Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West.
• Davis, Mike — 1990 City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles.
• Harvey, David — 1973 Social Justice and the City. | 1989 The Urban Experience. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins.
• Jackson, Kenneth T. — 1985 Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States.
• Jacobs, Jane — 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
• Mullings, Leith, ed. — 1987 Cities of the United States. New York: Columbia U Press.
• Mumford, Lewis — 1938 The Culture of Cities. | 1961 The City in History.
• Waterston, Alisse — 1993 Street Addicts in the Political Economy. Philadelphia: Temple U Press. | 1999 Love, Sorrow and Rage. Philadelphia: Temple U Press.
• Zukin, Sharon — 1987 Gentrification: Culture and Capital in the Urban Core. Annual Review of Sociology 13: 129-147. | 1995 The Cultures of Cities. Cambridge: Blackwell.

• Alfred, Gerald R. — 1995 Heeding the Voices of our Ancestors: Kahnawake Mohawk Politics and the Rise of Native Nationalism. Toronto: Oxford U Press.
• Glavin, Terry — 1990 A Death Feast in Dimlahamid. Vancouver: New Star Books. | 1996 Dead Reckoning: Confronting the Crisis in Pacific Fisheries. Vancouver: Greystone Books.
• Long, David Alan and Olive Patricia Dickason — 1996 Visions of the Heart: Canadian Aboriginal Issues. Toronto: Harcourt Brace.
• Mills, Antonia — 1994 Eagle Down is our Law: Witsuwit’en Law, Feasts, and Land Claims. Vancouver: UBC Press.
• Monture-Angus, Patricia — 1995 Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.

• Anderson, Benedict — 1991 Imagined Communities. London: Verso.
• Connerton, Paul — 1989 How Societies Remember. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.
• Fox, Richard G., ed. — 1990 Introduction. Nationalist Ideologies and the Production of National Cultures. Washington: American Anthropological Association.
• Handler, Richard — 1988 Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec. Madison: U of Wisconsin Press.
• Hobsbawm, Eric and Terence Ranger, eds. — 1983 The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge: Cambridge U Press.
• Kammen, Michael — 1991 Mystic Chords of Memory. New York: Knopf.
• Siskind, Janet — 1992 The Invention of Thanksgiving. Critique of Anthropology 12: 167-191.
• Zelinsky, Wilbur — 1988 Nation into State: The Shifting Symbolic Foundations of American Nationalism. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press.

• Adams, David Wallace — 1995 Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence, KS: U of Kansas Press.
• Anderson, James D. — 1988 The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press.
• Apple, Michael — 1988 Teachers and Texts. New York: Routledge. | 1996 Cultural Politics and Education. New York: Teachers College Press.
• Bowles, S. and H. Gintis — 1976 Schooling in Capitalist America. New York: Basic Books.
• Foley, Douglas E. — 1990 Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press.
• Fordham, Signithia — 1996 Blacked Out: Dilemmas of Race, Identity, and Success at Capital High. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Illich, Ivan — 1970 Deschooling Society. New York: Harper and Row.
• Katz, Michael — 1987 Reconstructing American Education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press.
• Leacock, Eleanor — 1970 Teaching and Learning in City Schools. New York: Basic Books.
• MacLeod, Jay — 1987 Ain’t No Makin’ It: Leveled Aspirations in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Boulder: Westview Press.
• Mead, Margaret — 1950 The School in American Culture. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press.
• Rist, Ray — 1973 The Urban School: A Factory for Failure. Cambridge: MIT Press.
• Ward, Martha — 1971 Them Children: A Study in Language Learning. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.

• Aho, James — 1990 The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism. U of Washington Press.
• Ammerman, Nancy T. — 1988 Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
• Diamond, Sarah — 1995 Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the US. Guilford.
• Ginsburg, Faye — 1989 Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Harding, Susan — 1991 Representing Fundamentalism: The Problem of the Repugnant Culture Other. Social Research 58(2): 373-393.
• McLoughlin, William G. — 1980 Revival, Awakening, and Reform. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Peshkin, Alan — 1986 God’s Choice: The Total World of a Fundamentalist Christian School. Chicago: U of Chicago Press.
• Rose, Susan — 1988 Keeping Them Out of the Hands of Satan: Evangelical Schooling in America. New York and London: Routledge.