Thanks to everyone who brought rough drafts and gave their time as peer reviewers – I think that helped all who participated in the paper conferences on Nov 7th.
Here’s what’s coming up –
Mon 11/12 – no class (Veteran’s Day)
Wed 11/14 – Rights Revolution. Reading: GC 240-264 + RP 205-217
Consider – what were the specific goals and strategies of the different sides in the civil rights movement? What was accomplished in the 1950s and 1960s? What was not accomplished? WHO accomplished it, and how? I.e. who should (and who usually does) get the credit for the civil rights movement’s achievements? How does this movement connect to broader policy and history trends regarding citizenship, including immigration and naturalization which we have just finished discussing?
David Chappell puts it this way in his book Stone of Hope (which I’m reading with a different class this month): “The movement created disorder so severe as to force a reluctant federal government to intervene–on the side of black southerners, which was more surprising then than it seems in hindsight today. The movement did all this with remarkably few casualties. The peculiar racial institution of the twentieth century South was destroyed by means considerably short of a civil war. That makes its destruction in many ways a more rather than less impressive achievement than the destruction of slavery.”
Monday 11/19 – We Shall Overcome (film clips, mostly). No reading, Research Paper is due as a printed stapled paper in class.
Enjoy your Thanksgiving break!
