WINTER 2001

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History of Consciousness

[HISC-080J]

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80J. Social Movements in the United States

Winter 2001
Instructor: Barbara Epstein
Tues-Thurs 10:00 - 11:45
Oakes 105

Syllabus

January 4: Introduction

The Thirties and the Old Left

January 9: The Labor Movement of the Thirties
January 11: The Communist Party and the Popular Front

Reading:
Robin D.G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, Parts One, Two (pp. 13-192).

McCarthyism

January 16: McCarthyism
January 18: Dissent during the Fifties

Reading:
Ellen Schrecker, Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America, chapters 5-8 (pp. 154-305).
Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, It Did Happen Here: Recollections of Political Repression in America, documents, pp. 75-90, 117-140, 263-288. In the Reader.

The Sixties: Civil Rights, the New Left, the Anti-War Movement

January 23: The Civil Rights Movement
January 25: Film: Eyes on the Prize

Reading:
Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle, chapters 4-13 (pp. 103-390). University of California Press, 1995.

January 30: The New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
February 1: The Movement against the War in Vietnam

Reading:
The New Left: A Documentary History, ed. Massimo Teodori, Part One: The Beginning of the Movement, 3. Community Organization: Todd Gitlin, "The Radical Potential of the Poor," 4. "Free Speech," 4.3, Mario Savio, "An End to History." Part Two: The Emergence of a New Left Position, and Part Three: The Radicalization of the Movement (pp. 238-133, 158-347). Bobbs-Merrill, 1969. In the Reader.
Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds., "Takin' it to the streets": A Sixties Reader, "The New Left Splinters" (pp. 428-432, 445-458). Oxford University Press, 1989. In the Reader.

February 6: Film: The War at Home
February 8: The Women's Movement

Reading:

Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, chapters 3-7
"Takin' it to the streets': A Sixties Reader, pp. 461-71, 475-503, 514-530. Viking, 2000. In the Reader.

Cultural Politics of the Seventies and Eighties

February 13: Environmental, Anti-Nuclear, and Gay and Lesbian Movements
February 15: Identity Politics, Culture Wars, and the Transformation of Social Movements

Reading:
Barbara Epstein, Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: NonViolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s, chapters 1-3 (pp.1-124). University of California Press, 1991. In the Reader.
Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, chapters one, eight (pp. 9-28, 205-257). MIT Press, 1995. In the Reader.
Mark Lilla, "A Tale of Two Reactions," The New York Review of Books, May 14, 1998, pp. 4-8. In the Reader.

February 20: Film: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
February 22: The Labor Movement since the Vietnam War

Reading:
Barbara Kingsolver, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1989. 196 pages.

Globalization and its Opponents

February 27: The Labor Movement since the War in Vietnam
March 1: Movements of the Right

Reading:
Morris Dees, Gathering Storm: America's Militia Threat. Harper Collins, 1996. 235 pages.
Manuel Castells, Shujiro Yazawa and Emma Kiselyova, "Insurgents Against the New Global Order: A Comparative Analysis of Zapatistas in Mexico, the American Militia and Japan's Aum Shinrikyo," Berkeley Journal of Sociology, Vol. 40, 1995-96, pp. 21-60.

Student Reports

March 6: Seattle and the Critique of Globalization from the Left
March 8: Student Reports

March 13: Student Reports