ZOLTÁN GROSSMAN Faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies, The Evergreen State College Lab 1, Room 3012, 2700 Evergreen Pkwy. NW, Olympia, WA 98505 USA grossmaz@evergreen.edu Tel. (360) 867-6153

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ASSIGNED BOOKS & SYLLABI FOR EVERGREEN QUARTERLY PROGRAMS

(not including ancillary readings)

In rough order of reading assignments; some books may be read over two quarters.

 

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Blood and Borders : Tradition and Transformation in Central Europe

with Pat Krafcik, Rob Smurr and Marta Botikova

Winter 2012 syllabus

Konwicki, Tadeusz, The Polish Complex                          

Vaclav Havel, et al. The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State                                        

Porter, Anna, The Ghosts of Europe                                                 

George, Emery, ed. Contemporary East European Poetry: An Anthology

Harper, Krista, Wild Capitalism: Environmental Activists and Post-Socialist Ecology in Hungary                  

Bochinarz, Zbigniew, ed. The Environment and Sustainable Development in the New Central Europe              

Drakulic, Slavenka. How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

Ost, David. The Defeat of Solidarity: Anger and Politics in Postcommunist Europe             

Fall 2011 syllabus

Johnson, Lonnie. Central Europe.               

Magocsi, Paul Robert. Historical Atlas of Central Europe. 

Mazower, Mark. The Balkans.                            

Plakans, Andrejs. Concise History of the Baltic States.    

Andric, Ivo. The Bridge on the Drina.                 

Hutchinson, John & Anthony Smith, eds. Nationalism.                                                  

Hasek, Jaroslav. The Good Soldier Svejk.

Crow, David  & John Kolsti, eds.The Gypsies of Eastern Europe.           

Kertesz, Imre Fateless. 

Rampolla, Mary Lynn.  A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. 

A People's Geography of American Empire

with Larry Mosqueda

 

Spring 2011 syllabus

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

Walker, Alice. Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

Foster, John B.& Robert McChesney. Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire

Lutz, Catherine, ed. The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts

Bricmont, Jean. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War

Enloe, Cynthia. Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War

Jamail, Dahr. Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan

Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim

with Kristina Ackley

 

Fall 2010

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Tauli-Corpuz, Victoria and Jerry Mander, eds. Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization.

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

King, Thomas. The Truth about Stories.

Trask, Haunani-Kay. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i.

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat.

Durie, Mason. Nga Tai Matatu: Tides of Maori Endurance.

Winter 2011 (Trip to Aotearoa/New Zealand)

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples.

Walker, Ranginui. Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou -- Struggle Without End

Grace, Patricia. Potiki (excerpts)

McCarthy, Conal. Exhibiting Maori (excerpt)

 

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American Frontiers: Homelands and Empire

with Kristina Ackley

 

Fall 2009 :

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Meeks, Eric V. Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona.

Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family.

Thrush, Coll. Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place.

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush.

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building.

Rothman, Hal. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West.

Crosthwaite, Luis Humberto. Puro Border: Dispatches, Snapshots, & Graffiti from the US/Mexico Border.

Winter 2010 :

LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming

Cattelino, Jessica R. High Stakes: Florida Seminole Gaming and Sovereignty.

Alfred, Taiaiake. Peace, Power and Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto.

Nevins, Joseph. Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid.

Li, Judith L. To Harvest, To Hunt: Stories of Resource Use in the American West.

Spring 2010 :

Armstrong, Jeannette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel

Wildcat, Daniel R. Red Alert!: Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge

Sen, Rinku, and Fekkak Mamdouh. The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization

Silko, Leslie Marmon, Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today

 

Food, Place and Culture

with Martha Rosemeyer

 

Spring 2009 :

Anderson, E.N. Everyone Eats: Understanding Food and Culture.

Deur, D. and N. J. Turner. Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America.

Roche, J. and M. McHutchison (Eds). First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North PacificRim.

Wilkinson, C. F.. Messages from Franks Landing: Salmon, Treaties and the Indian Way.

Pojar, J. and A. MacKinnon. Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

Nabhan, G.P. (Ed.) Renewing America's Food Traditions.

Patel, R.. Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World's Food System.

 

Conceptualizing Native Place

with Lara Evans

 

Fall 2008 :

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing.

Wood, Denis. The Power of Maps.

Berger, Martin. Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture.

Warhus, Mark. Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land.

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian.

LaDuke, Winona. Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming.

Nottage, James H. (Ed.). Diversity and Dialogue: The Eiteljorg Fellowship for Native American Fine Art.

National Museum of the American Indian. Off the Map: Landscape in the Native Imagination.

Wilkinson, Charles F. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

Armstrong, Jeanette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel.

Waldman, Carl. Atlas of the North American Indian.

 

Winter 2009 :

Aberley, Doug (Ed.). Boundaries of Home: Mapping for Local Empowerment

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples

Hoelscher, Steven D. Picturing Indians

Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute. Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations

Tshinhnahjinnie, Hulleah, and Veronica Passalacqua,(Eds).. Our People, Our Land, Our Images

Blanchard, Rebecca, and Nancy Davenport (Eds.) Contemporary Coast Salish Art

Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places.

Nisqually watershed podcasts (by students)

 

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Colonialism and Decolonization

with Zahid Shariff

 

Spring 2008 :

Tauli-Corpuz, V., Mander, J. (Eds.). Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Globalization..

Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism.

Prashad, Vijay. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World.

Bricmont, Jean. Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War.

Dawson, Ashley, Schueller, M.J. (Eds.). Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism.

Native Decolonization in the Pacific Rim

with Frances Rains (Fall)

 

Fall 2007 :

 

Wray, Jacilee (Ed.). Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula : Who We Are .

 

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound.

 

Wilkinson, Charles. Messages from Franks Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

 

Muckle, Robert J. First Nations of British Columbia:An Anthropological Survey.

 

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians :Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

 

Harris, Cole. Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance & Reserves in British Columbia.

 

George, Chief Earl Maquinna. Living on the Edge: Nuu-Chah-Nulth History from an Ahousaht Chief's Perspective.

 

Armstrong, Jeannette. Whispering in Shadows: A Novel

 

Winter 2008 :

 

Kawagley, Angayuqaq Oscar. A Yupiaq Worldview: A Pathway to Ecology and Spirit.

 

Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom.

 

Roche, Judith, and Meg McHutchison (Eds.) First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim.

 

Trask, Haunani-Kay. From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaii.

 

Gedicks, Al. Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining & Oil Corporations.

 

Reading, Nigel, and Gary Wyatt. Manawa: Pacific Heartbeat.

 

Durie, Mason Nga Tai Matatu: Tides of Maori Endurance.

 

Sykes, Roberta. Murawina: An Authentic Aboriginal Message.

 

Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research & Indigenous Peoples.

 

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A People's Geography of American Empire

with Larry Mosqueda

 

Spring 2007 :

 

Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

 

Fixico, Donald L. The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources

 

Foster, John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, eds. Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire

 

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian Hating and Empire Building

 

Kipp, Woody. Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist

 

Enloe, Cynthia. Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives

 

Klare, Michael T. Resource Wars: The New Landscape of Global Conflict

 

Loveman, Brian (Ed.) Strategy for Empire: U.S. Regional Security Policy in the Post-Cold War Era

 

Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire :Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic

 

Jensen, Robert. Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity.

 

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Political Economy and Social Movements

with Pete Bohmer and Tony Zaragoza

 

Fall 2006 :

 

Kaufman, Cynthia, Ideas for Action

 

Bowles, Sam, Richard Edwards, Frank Roosevelt, Understanding Capitalism.

 

Dollars & Sense, Real World Macro, 23rd ed.

 

Nash, Gary, Red, White and Black.

 

Smith, Andrea, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide

 

Allen, Theodore, Class Struggle and the Origins of Racial Slavery

 

Roediger, David, Colored White, Transcending the Racial Past

 

Martinez, Elizabeth, De Colores Means All of Us

 

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto.

 

Marx, Karl, Wage, Labor and Capital, and Value, Price and Profit

 

Murolo, Priscilla & A.B. Chitty, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

 

Ransby, Barbara, Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement

 

hooks, bell, Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center

 

Schlosser, Eric , Fast Food Nation

 

Rose, Fred, Coalitions Across the Class Divide

 

Winter 2007 :

 

Lichtenstein, Nelson, ed. Wal-Mart, The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism,

 

Juhasz, Antonia. The Bush Agenda, Invading the World, One Economy at a Time

 

Aguilar, Delia, and Anna Lacsamana. Women & Globalization

 

Benjamin, Medea & Jodie Evan, eds. Stop the Next War Now

 

Hernandez, Daisy & Bushra Rehman, eds. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

 

Prashad, Vijay. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting

 

Hahnel, Robin. Economic Justice and Democracy, From Competition to Cooperation

 

Roy, Arundhati. Power Politics

 

Gedicks, Al, Resource Rebels: Native Challenges to Mining and Oil Corporations

 

Gott, Richard. Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

 

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Climate Change and Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations

Project of the Northwest Indian Applied Research Institute;

Graduate research project with Alan Parker

 

Summer 2006 Project Report

 

AICRJ article

 

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Anti-Indian Movements: Origins, Images, & Responses

with Kristina Ackley

 

Spring 2006 :

 

Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth. Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth.

 

Wilkinson, Charles F. Messages from Frank's Landing: A Story of Salmon, Treaties, and the Indian Way.

 

Montana Human Rights Network. Drumming up Resentment: the anti-Indian Movement in Montana.

 

Whaley, Rick and Walter Bresette. Walleye Warriors: The Chippewa Treaty Rights Story.

 

Raibmon, Paige. Authentic Indians : Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast.

 

LaDuke, Winona. All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life.

 

Deloria, Jr., Vine and David E. Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations.

 

Alfred, Taiaiake. Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action And Freedom.

 

Kallen, Stuart A. Indian Gaming (At Issue Series).

 

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American Frontiers: Critical Histories

with Kristina Ackley and Michael Pfeifer

 

Fall 2005 :

 

Limerick, Patricia. Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Nash, Gary B. Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early North America.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815.

Deloria, Philip. Playing Indian.

Erdrich, Louise. Tracks.

Wallace, Anthony F.C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians.

Buchanan, Thomas C. Black Life on the Mississippi: Slaves, Free Blacks, and the Western Steamboat World.

Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family.

 

Winter 2006 :

Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush .

Welch, James. Fools Crow

Harmon, Alexandra. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound

Sone, Monica Itoi. Nisei Daughter

Drinnon, Richard. Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating and Empire-Building

Rothman, Hal K. Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West

Ruiz, Vicky L. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America

Waldman, Carl. Atlas of the North American Indian

Harte, Bret. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Writings