The following texts are required and (except for the last one) can be purchased at the Vassar bookstore:

Patti Smith, Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010).

Forrest Stuart, Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020).

Other readings can be accessed electronically through Moodle.