This section includes
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a Readings Overview
Chart which show which methods are used in each reading
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a Brief Summary of each reading with the author’s
own abstract, the features that contributed to our selection of the
piece, a list of assignments using the reading, and links to discussion questions
and other materials based on the reading available elsewhere on this site. You
can jump to a particular brief summary by selecting the reading from either
the chart or the alphabetical list
below
Remember:
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- You'll also want to examine the
Assignment Sequences to see
how students are invited to work with the reading and for a chart of which
methods are used in each of the sequences.
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- Teaching
Reading will give you more suggestions for working with the readings.
Additional
Resources includes extra internet sites and samples of student work that
may also be useful.
Readings Overview
What Methods are Demonstrated in Which Readings?
word
version of the overview chart to download
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Primary Method |
Readings |
Also Uses |
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Interviews |
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oral history |
focus groups |
visuals |
numerical analysis |
speech |
archives |
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Benmayor |
p |
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p |
p |
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Lowe |
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p |
p |
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p |
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Thelen |
p |
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p |
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Yung |
p |
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p |
p |
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Primary Method |
Readings |
Also Uses |
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Numbers |
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surveys |
visuals |
numerical analysis |
textual analysis |
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Frisch |
p |
p |
p |
p |
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NEA |
p |
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p |
p |
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Len-Ríos |
p |
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p |
p |
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Primary Method |
Readings |
Also Uses |
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Texts |
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music |
speech |
archives |
visuals |
numerical analysis |
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Jackson |
p |
p |
p |
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Jones |
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p |
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Koza |
p |
p |
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p |
p |
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White |
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p |
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word file of all
the annotations if you prefer to download
Bachin, Robin "Courage, Endurance and Quickness of
Decision: Gender and Athletics at the University of Chicago, 1890-1920"
from
Rethinking History 5 # 1 (2001)
Benmayor, Rina "Narrating Cultural Citizenship: Oral
Histories of First-generation College Students of Mexican Origin"
from
Social Justice 29 # 4 (2002)
Chavez, Leo R. "Developing a Visual Discourse on
Immigration" from
Covering Immigration: Popular Images and the
Politics of the Nation University of California Press (2001)
Dilworth, Leah "‘Handmade
by an American Indian’: Souvenirs and the Cultural Economy of
Southwestern Tourism" from
The Culture of Tourism, the Tourism of Culture:
Selling the
Past to the Present in the American Southwest
University of New Mexico Press (2003)
Edwards, Janis L. and Carol K. Winkler "Representative
Form and the Visual Ideograph: The Iwo Jima Image in Editorial Cartoons"
from
Quarterly Journal of Speech 83 (August 1997)
Frisch, Michael "American History and the Structures of
Collective Memory: A Modest Exercise in Empirical Iconography"
from The
Journal of American History 75 # 4 (March 1989)
Jackson, Mark Allen "Is This Song Your Song Any More: Revisioning Woodie Guthrie’s 'This Land is Your Land'"
from
American Music 20 # 3 (Autumn 2003)
Jones, Jeffrey P. "Forums for Citizenship"
from
Politics, Discourse, and American Society: New Agendas Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers (2001)
Koza, Julia Eklund "Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of
Official Representation" from
Sound Identities: Popular Music and the Cultural
Politics of Education Peter Lang Publishing (1999)
Len-Ríos, María, Shelly Rodgers, Esther Thorson, and
Doyle Yoon "Representation of Women in News and Photos: Comparing Content to
Perceptions" from
Journal of Communication (March 2005)
Lewis, Peirce "Common Landscapes as Historic Documents"
from
History from Things: Essays on Material Culture Smithsonian Institution Press
(1993)
Lowe, Melanie "Colliding Feminisms: Britney Spears,
‘Tweens,’ and the Politics of Reception" from
Popular Music and Society 26 # 2 (2003)
Lutz, Catherine A. and Jane L. Collins "The Photograph
as an Intersection of Gazes" from
Looking for America: The Visual Production of
Nation and People Ardis Cameron, ed. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. (2005)
National Endowment for the Arts "Constructing Public
through Research: Trends in Literature Participation, 1982-2002"
from
Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (2004)
Prown, Jules David "The Truth of Material Culture:
History or Fiction?" from
History from Things: Essays in Material Culture
Smithsonian Institution Press (1993)
Shackel, Paul A. "Public Memory and the Search for
Power in American Historical Archaeology" from
American Anthropologist 103 # 3 (2001)
Spence, Steve "Van Gogh in Alabama, 1936"
from
Representations 75 (Summer 2001)
Thelen, David "Remembering
the Discovery of the Watergate Tapes" from
The Journal of American
History 75 # 4 (March 1989)
White, James Boyd "Human Dignity and the Claim of
Meaning: Athenian Tragic Drama and Supreme Court Opinions"
from
Journal of Supreme Court History 27 # 1 (2002)
Yung, Judy "‘A Bowlful of Tears’ Revisited: The Full
Story of Lee Puey You’s Immigration Experience at Angel Island"
from
Frontiers 25 # 1 (2004)
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