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Course: America Through Foreign Eyes. Click
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Chapter 1: Course Overview
Chapter 2: America through Foreign Eyes: Introduction to Course
Chapter 3: Perceptions of Other Cultures: Generalizations, Essentialisms, and Stereotypes
Chapter 4: Student Approaches and Course Material
Chapter 1: Introduction: America Through African Eyes
Chapter 2: Africans Appropriating Americans: Elvis and the Chewa of Malawi
Chapter 3: Africans Appropriating Americans: Tupac Shakur in Sierra Leone
Chapter 4: Africans in America: America through Enslaved Peoples' Eyes
Chapter 5: Africans in America: Sudanese Refugees in America: Navigating America in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 6: Africans in America: Africans and Race in America
Chapter 7: African-Americans and Africans in Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah, American Civil Rights, and Ghanaian Independence
Chapter 8: African-Americans and Africans in Ghana: Slave Tourism: How West Africans see African-American Tourists
2020 Update: Barack Obama through Kenyan Eyes
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Chinese Cultural System
Chapter 2: First Contact with America and the West
Chapter 3: China's Entry Into the World: Opium, the Unequal Treaties and the Exclusion Act
Chapter 4: From Reform to Revolution
Chapter 5: The New Culture Movement
Chapter 6: Madame Chiang Kaishek: A Study in Chinese and American Interactions in the Republican Era
Chapter 7: America as Enemy and as Friend: The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution and the Ping-Pong Diplomacy
Chapter 8: China's Re-Entry into the World
Chapter 9: Taiwan and Hong Kong
Chapter 10: Voices from China and Taiwan
2020 Update: Geopolitical Crises since 2015
Chen Lei, December 7, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao
Feng Yu, December 7, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao
Jorge Liu, August 17, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao
Li Zhonggui, August 13, 2014, Interviewed by Dr. Anne Chao
Chapter 1: France and America: Friend and Foe
Chapter 2: America: Land of Democracy
Chapter 3: America = Modernity
Chapter 4: American Capitalism: Mass Production, Mass Consumption, and Inequality
Chapter 5: Globalization and the Cultural Exception
Chapter 6: Racism and Xenophobia in the United States and France
Chapter 7: Religion and Secularism
Chapter 8: Franco-American Cultural Exchange: Art, Artists, and Art Patrons
Chapter 9: Intellectual Life: The American University
Chapter 9: Simone de Beauvoir at Rice, by Melissa Kean
Chapter 10: America as Hyperreality
2020 Update: France Averts its Gaze
Marie Darrieussecq, May 20, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette
Eric Fassin, May 19, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette
Fabrice Morel, May 22, 2015, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette
Jean-Loup Chrétien, December 7, 2016, Interviewed by Dr. Julie Fette
Chapter 1: America through Mexican Eyes: Inseparable Histories
Chapter 2: The Gringo, Yankee, and American
Chapter 3: Immigration
Chapter 4: Racism
Chapter 5: Religion
Chapter 6: Temples of Knowledge: Education, Universities and Libraries
Chapter 7: Food
Chapter 8: American Women
Chapter 9: Capitalism and Modernity
Chapter 10: Democracy and Empire
2020 Update: Post-2016: A low point in US-Mexico relations
Chapter 1: Russia and the United States: Competing Systems, Failed Dialogues
Chapter 2: Russian Serfs, American Slaves
Chapter 3: The Russian Revolution and American Modernity
Chapter 4: Soviet Hollywood
Chapter 5: Soviet Perceptions of Race in America
Chapter 6: The American National Exhibition, Moscow 1959
Chapter 7: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Chapter 8: Russian Immigrants in the United States
Chapter 9: America, the Model of Democracy: Russia in the 1990s
Chapter 1: Reversing the Gaze: Africa through American Eyes
Chapter 2: Reversing the Gaze: China through American Eyes
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Fung
Chapter 3: Reversing the Gaze: France through American Eyes
Chapter 4: Reversing the Gaze: Mexico through American Eyes
Chapter 5: Reversing the Gaze: Russia through American Eyes
Rice Students Discuss America Through Foreign Eyes