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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