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1.00 Credits
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This course encourages students to critically analyze the relationship between the Cold War and developments in American culture. Discussion topics include the roots of the Cold War, the anxieties concerning nuclear annihilation, the fear of global and domestic communism, representations of the Cold War in social memory, political dissent and cultural politics during the Cold War, and the impact of the Cold War on gender norms, civil rights, and labor relations. In addition to reading historical monographs, students will interpret the era's popular culture. 1.00 units, Seminar
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This course examines cannibalism in the Americas from the 15th through the 20th centuries. While we devote several weeks to understanding different forms of cannibalism - survival, ritual, and psychotic - the empahsis is on American constructions of cannibalism with attention to "native" ideas and responses. From traveler accounts to Vampire movies, we will examine the role of cannibalism in identity construction, colonization, social power, and cultural critique. This course is highly interdisciplinary and draws on history, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, literature, and film. 1.00 units, Lecture
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How do we talk about what we do for a living, what we buy and what race we give ourselves Does our skin color, our job or our Jeep Cherokee define us We seek to understand how these factors influence our perceptions of who we are, how we fit into society and the rights we enjoy in society. Race, gender and the market economy - and the ways these concepts change throughout American history - will become key issues for us to consider. Our reading will cover a broad swath of time, from Crevecoeur and Equiano in the 18th century to Thoreau, and Frederick Douglass in the 19th century and Francisco Jiménez and "Rivethead" in the 20th century. 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course focuses on ethnic and racial communities in 20th-century urban areas. Readings allow students to assess and to compare the ways in which ethnicity and race impacted how people lived and worked in the city (e.g., ethnic neighborhoods, segmented labor, and racially exclusive unions). They also reveal how ethnic and racial communities defined their interests when they engaged in political activities. Discussion themes include identity politics, intergroup relations, cultural life within ethnic and racial communities, employment discrimination, and residential segregation. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A lecture-discussion course which surveys the experience of American wage-earners, with emphasis on their efforts to control their own lives in and out of the workplace. The course will pay particular attention to racial, religious, gender, and skill divisions in the working class and efforts to overcome those divisions by unions, political parties, commercial mass culture, and other means. Roughly equal time will be given to the economic, political, and cultural dimensions of workers' experience. Readings will include works of fiction and autobiography along with many primary documents. There is no prerequisite, but students will benefit from having taken History 202-01 prior to enrolling in History 356-01. This is one of the core courses for the Studies in Progressive American Social Movements minor. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Scholars and now even the larger public have conceded that race is a social construct. However, many are just beginning to fully explore how the specific dimensions and use of space is mediated by the politics of racial difference and racial identification. Therefore, this course seeks to explore how racism and race relations shape urban spatial relations, city politics, and the built environment and how the historical development of cities has shaped racial identity as lived experience. Covering the 20th century, the course examines three critical junctures: Ghettoization (1890s-1940s); Metropolitan Formation (1940s-1990s); and Neo-Liberal Gentrification (present). 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course examines the public and private works of select American reformers. From Tom Paine and Ida Wells to Rachel Carson and Bob Dylan, reformers have been selfless and selfish in their quest to better America. Noble activist Attention-starved loon In this class, you will judge individual musicians, politicians, and writers while exploring how changing views on religion, economy, gender, science, and race, time and again, reshaped the trajectory of American social reform. 1.00 units, Seminar
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"We have front row seats for the theater of mass destruction," said the narrator of the 1999 film, Fight Club. This course examines the ways in which violence has constructed America and America has constructed violence. How has the definition of violence changed over time What are the connections between cultural understandings of pain and suffering and the larger social dynamics of the nation We will study these important questions in a variety of settings from the 19th to the 20th century. Readings will include Andrew Jackson, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Tillie Olsen, Ralph Ellison, James Welch, Chuck Palahniuk, and others. 1.00 units, Lecture
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Music has seemingly played a role in American events from the 1760s to the 1960s. But what has music actually accomplished Is it capable of changing the world Or is it simply a sideshow of political activism This seminar traces mainstream and radical musical response to social and cultural upheaval in the American past from the Revolution to the post-9/11 age. Using the likes of William Billings, Jesse Hutchinson, George Root, and Scott Joplin to Duke Ellington, Bob Dylan, Prince, and Tupac Shakur, we will look to understand the many messages embedded in American protest music and the American music as an icon of social reform. 1.00 units, Seminar
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