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Introductions: Culture, Literature, and History A Brief Lecture on an overview of the literary periods in 20th & 21st century American Literature: Reading: “Consumer Culture and Commercialized Leisure” in Ed. L. Fink, Major Problems in the Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (325-335) New Explorations of an “American” Self From Jane Addams, “Democracy and Social Ethics” (1902) & From The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909) (selected pages) Mary Antin (873-874), from The Promised Land (871-881)
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Modern Period 1910-1945 (884-914) Booker T. Washington (916-917), “The Atlanta Exposition Address” (935-941) W.E.B. DuBois (943-945), from The Souls of Black Folk “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” (946-951) and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” (951-959)
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Modern Period 1910-1945 continued Robert Frost (1146-1147), “Mending Wall” (1149-1150) & “Stopping By Woods” (1159) Sherwood Anderson (1164-1165), “Hands” (1166-1169) Ezra Pound (1215-1217), “A Pact” (1219) and “In a Station of the Metro” (1219) Gertrude Stein (1255-1257), from The Making of Americans (1257-1258) H.D. (1340-1341). “Sea Rose” (1341-1342)
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The New Negro Renaissance (1578-1581) Alain Locke (1581-1583), “The New Negro” (1584-1592) Langston Hughes (1611-1612), “Negro” (1617), “Harlem” (1619) & “I, Too” (1618). Addison-Wesley, “The Roaring Twenties” (480-503) and “Boom and Bust” (504-523)
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Issues and Visions in Modern America (1729-1730) Randolphe Bourne (1730-1731), “Trans-National America” (1916) (1731-1743) Anzia Yezierska(1743-1744), “America and I” (1745-1752) H.Zinn, “War Is the Health of the State” from The Twentieth Century: A People’s History (1998) (77-98) Recommended reading: A. Redding, Radical Legacies: Twentieth-Century Public Intellectuals in the United States (Lexington Books, 2016)
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1920s and the Depression Era Tillie Olsen (2265-2267), “I Stand Here Ironing” (1961) from Elements of Literature 5 (1982) (306-312) Malcolm X (2541-2542), “Nightmare” (1-22) & “Mascot” (23-38) from Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1964)
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Midterm Exam—March 20, 2017 (Monday) Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present (2012-2017) & Orthodoxy and Resistance: Cold War Culture and Its Discontents” (2018-2023)
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Contemporary Period: 1945 to the Present continued James Baldwin (2221), “Sonny’s Blues” (2222-2243) DVD on the Civil Rights Movement
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Civil Rights Movement New Communities, New Identities, New Energies (2455-2461) Martin Luther King, Jr. (2528-2529), “I Have a Dream” (2530-2533) DVD film version of the speech and cultural context will also be shown. Aldon D. Morris, “Domination, Church, and the NAACP” (1-16), “Beginnings & Confrontations” (17-39) from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986) Recommended reading: Aldon D. Morris, “Theoretical Overview & Conclusion” (275-290) from The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement (1986)
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Literary Responses to the Vietnam War: Maxine Hong Kingston, “Introduction: Tell the Truth, and So Make Peace,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (1-3). Robert Golling, Jr., “The Body Escort,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (122-129). Julie Thi Underhill, “war dream i,” & “war dream ii,” from Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace, Ed. Maxine Hong Kingston (2006) (569).
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9/11 and Its Effects on American Culture DVD: National Geographic: Inside 9/11 Henry A. Giroux, “Introduction: Challenging the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex After 9/11” from The University in Chains (2007) (1-12) Jaideep Singh, “Interpreting Media Representation at the Intersections & of White and Christian Supremacy” from Ed. Rebecca Ann Lind, Race/Gender/Media (2004) (117-125) Responses to American society Edward W. Said, “Origins of Terrorism” from Ed. Barsamian, Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said (103-131) H.Zinn, “The Double Horror of 9/11” from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007) (73-75)
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The Hurricane Katrina, 2005, and Its Impact on Racioethnic Stereotypes DVD--National Geographic: Inside Hurricane Katrina & TV Interview in US with Abdulrahman & Kathy Zeitoun on the actual experience of discrimination Jerry W. Ward, Jr. from Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma & Recovery (2008) (11-29) From David Eggers’ Zeitoun (2010) (319-325) The Hurricane Katrina, 2005 continued DVD—National Geographic: Inside Hurricane Katrina Henry A. Giroux, “Katrina and the Biopolitics of Disposability” from Stormy Weather: Katrina & the Politics of Disposability (2006) (1-78)
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The Hurricane Katrina, 2005, and Its Impact on Racioethnic Stereotypes Continued Jason De Parle, “Broken Levees, Unbroken Barriers” from Eds. Segal & Martinez, Intersections of Gender, Race and Class (2007) (565-567) H.Zinn, “Big Government” from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007) (29-34) May 1, 2017 Holiday
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Toward New Ways of Thinking about American Culture in the Post-Obama Era: A Re-Evaluation of Barack Obama's Speeches versus his Actions DVD—on Barack Obama—The Power of Change. Brief Overview: Barack Obama, “A More Perfect Union” (2008)& “Inaugural Address” (2009) Tim Wise, “Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters, and the Myth of Color Blindness” (15-23) from Tim Wise, Speaking Treason Fluently (2008) D.Trump's Discourse on the U.S. Foreign Policy--2017 Final Discussion and Wrap-Up Session