Thinking Through Palestine

Recommended by Prof. Mónica Salas Landa (anthropology and sociology)

Abu El-Haj, Nadia. 2002. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Azem, Ibtisam. 2014. The Book of Disappearance. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Barghouti, Mourid. 2003. I Saw Ramallah. Vancouver: Anchor.

Ehrenreich, Ben. 2016. The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine. New York: Penguin Press.

Erakat, Noura. 2019. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Redwood: Stanford University Press.

Kanafani, Ghassan. 1999. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers.

Karmi, Ghada. 2009. In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. New York: Verso.

Khalidi, Rashid. 2020. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. London: Macmillan Publishers.

Loewenstein, Anthony. 2023. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. New York: Verso Books.

Pappé, Ilan. 2006. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications.

Pappé, Ilan. 2017. Ten Myths About Israel. New York: Verso Books.

Ross, Andrew. 2019. Stone Men: The Palestinians who Built Israel. New York: Verso Books.

Sacco, Joe. 2010. Footnotes in Gaza. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Said, Edward W. 1997. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Books.

Said, Edward W. and Christopher Hitchens (eds.). 1988. Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. New York: Verso.

Sayigh, Rosemary. 2008. The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. New York: Bloomsbury Press.

Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Sophia. 2019. Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine. Redwood: Stanford University Press.

Virtual Issue on Palestine/Israel. Antipodes Online. 2021 May 24.

The history of settler colonialism and resistance in the United States

Recommended by Prof. Jeremy Zallen (history)

Anderson, Gary Clayton. 2005. The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

Blackhawk, Ned. 2006. Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Chang, David A. 2016. The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Deloria, Philip J. 2004. Indians in Unexpected Places. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press.

DuVal, Kathleen. 2006. The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. 2014. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. 2021. Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. Boston: Beacon Press.

Etheridge, Robbie. Editor. 2009. Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Instability in the American South. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

Hämäläinen, Pekka. 2022. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. New York: Liveright.

Hernández, Kelly Lytle. 2017. City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Johnson, Walter. 2021. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. 2nd edition: updated with a new coda, New York: Basic Books.

Mann, Charles C. 2005, 2011. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, 2nd edition. New York: Vintage Books.

Reséndez, Andrés. 2016. The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Theobald, Brianna. 2019. Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Warren, Louis S. 2017. God’s Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America. New York: Basic Books.

White, Richard. 1991, 2011. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Thinking through Israel

Recommended by Prof. Jessica Carr (religious studies) and Prof. Ilan Peleg (government & law)

Beinart, Peter. 2012. The Crisis of Zionism. New York: Times Books.

Boum, Aomar. 2013. Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco. Stanford: Stanford University Press
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Butler, Judith. 2012. Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism. New York: Columbia University Press.

Carr, Jessica. 2020. The Hebrew Orient: Palestine in Jewish American Visual Culture, 1901-1938. Albany: State University Press of New York.

Collins, Larry and Dominique Lapierre (Lafayetter alum, ’49). 1972. O Jerusalem! New York: Simon and Schuster.

Dowty, Alan. 2017. Israel/Palestine. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Friedman, Thomas. 1989. From Beirut to Jerusalem. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux.

Gertz, Nurith and George Khleifi. 2008. Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Goldberg, Jeffrey. 2006. Prisoners: A Muslim and Jew Across the Middle East Divide. New York: Knopf

Halperin, Liora. 2021. The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Hertzberg, Arthur, editor. 1970. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. New York: Atheneum.

Hoffman, Lawrence (ed.). 1986. The Land of Israel: Jewish Perspectives. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Kalmar, Ivan Davidson and Derek J. Penslar (eds.). 2005. Orientalism and the Jews. Waltham: Brandeis University Press.

Khalidi, Rashid. 2013. Brokers of Deceit: How the US as Undermined Peace in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press.

Khalidi, Rashid. 2021. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. New York: Picador.

Khalidi, Rashid. 1997. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press.

Kolsky, Thomas. 1990. Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Lustick, Ian. 2019. Paradigm Lost: From Two-state Solution to One-state Reality. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press

Medoff, Rafael. 1997. Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma. Westport: Praeger.

Medoff, Rafael. Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926-1948. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Peleg, Ilan. 2007. Democratizing the Hegemonic State: Political Transformation in the Age of Identity. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Peleg, Ilan, ed. 1998. The Middle East Peace Process: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press

Peleg, Ilan and Dov Waxman. 2011. Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Roby, Bryan. 2015. The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel’s Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.

Said, Edward W. 1997. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Books.

Schneer, Jonathan. The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab Israeli Conflict. New York: Random House, 2010.

Waxman, Dov. 2019. The Israel/Palestine Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press.

Yaeger, Patricia (ed.). 1996. The Geography of Identity. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Zerubavel, Yael. 1995. Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Carr, Jessica. “Balfour Declaration (1917).” Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. Edward J. Blum, Editor in Chief. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 2016.

Carr, Jessica. “Holocaust.” Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. Edward J. Blum, Editor in Chief. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 2016.

Carr, Jessica. “Palestine.” Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. Edward J. Blum, Editor in Chief. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 2016.

Carr, Jessica. “Zionism.” Dictionary of American History, Supplement: America in the World, 1776 to the Present. Edward J. Blum, Editor in Chief. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons: 2016.

Miscevic, Nenad. “Nationalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2010 (2001).