Dissent in American society
Ian Mylchreest
8 points
* One lecture and one 2-hour seminar per week
* First
semester
* Caulfield and Clayton
Objectives Students completing this subject should be familiar with the nature of dissent in American society, and have used a range of primary and secondary texts, and various disciplinary perspectives to achieve that understanding.
Synopsis This subject will examine religious, political, and cultural dissent as ideology and practice in the United States from the 1600s to the late twentieth century. Topics will include evangelicals and fundamentalists, revolutionaries, socialists, environmentalists, communists and anticommunists, the Ku-Klux Klan, black nationalists, and the antiwar and counter-culture movements.
Assessment second year Short paper (1000 words): 20%
* Long essay
(3000 words): 40%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Second-year students
will write a long essay which can use primary sources but will rest on
secondary research.
Assessment third year Short paper (1000 words): 20%
* Research essay
(3000 words): 40%
* Examination (2 hours): 40%
* Third-year students
will base their research essays on primary documents and demonstrate their
familiarity with the topic's historiography.
Prescribed texts
Bennett D The party of fear UNCP
Haley A The autobiography of Malcolm X Penguin
Moore R L Religious outsiders and the making of Americans OUP
Schultz B and Schultz R It did happen here: Recollections of political repression in America U California P
Steinbeck J The grapes of wrath Penguin
Thoreau H D Walden and civil disobedience Penguin
Twain M A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court Penguin
Recommended texts
Brinkley A Voices of protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression Random House
Gitlin T Years of hope, days of rage Random House
Navasky V Naming names Riverrun Press
Salvatore N Eugene Debs: Citizen and socialist U Illinois P
Young M B The Vietnam wars: 1945-1990 Harper Collins
Walters R American reformers 1815-1860 Hill and Wang
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