AJ57013 Topics in Culture: The American Civil Rights Movement

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2015
Rozsah
0/2/0. 7 kr. (plus 3 za zk). Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
každý lichý pátek 9:10–10:45 G31
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Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to discuss and analyze the development of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. They will be able assess the primary factors that influenced the development of this movement. They will be able to compare and contrast the development of civil rights in the U.S. with larger questions of human rights in a variety of countries and different historical periods. They will be able to evaluate how specific questions relating to civil and human rights are currently being dealt with around the world.
Osnova
  • Week 1: Course Introduction: Rights, Minorities, Race
  • Week 2: Racism: Eye-to-Eye documentary
  • Week 3: What are “civil rights”? Are they the same as “human rights”?
  • Week 4: The Stirrings of a Civil Rights Movement: 1896-1918: Plessy v. Ferguson, Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, the Niagara Movement, the NAACP, Prelude to the Great Struggle: 1918-1954 -- The Springfield Riot, Resurgence of the KKK, the New Deal, World War II, CORE, Brown v. Board of Education
  • Week 5: “America’s Civil Rights Years: Awakenings (1954-1956)” The Montgomery Bus Boycott,Martin Luther King, Jr., Emmett Till
  • Week 6: “America’s Civil Rights Years: Fighting Back(1957-1962)”: School Desegregation, Little Rock, the University of Mississippi
  • Week 7: “America’s Civil Rights Years: No Easy Walk(1961-1963)”: Albany, GA; Birmingham, AL, the March on Washington, “I Have a Dream”
  • Week 8: Martin Luther King
  • Week 9: “America’s Civil Rights Years: Mississippi:Is this America? (1962-1964)”: Voter Registration, Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Democratic Party in turmoil
  • Week 10: Turmoil:1965-1972: Black Power, Riots, Busing
  • Week 11: Retrenchment: 1972-2005: Jesse Jackson, “Reverse Discrimination,” Louis Farrakhan, “Million Man March”
  • Week 12: GLBTQ Issues
  • Week 13: The Roman Question in Europe and Beyond.
Literatura
  • Romové a Evropa : sborník z konference : romské etnikum a multietnicita v zemích střední Evropy : evropský problém? (Souběž.) : The Roma and Europe : conference proceedings : the Roma community and multi-ethnicity in the countries of central Europe : a e. info
  • RICHES, William T. Martin. The civil rights movement : struggle and resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, xxix, 248. ISBN 9781403916051. info
  • The rights of minority cultures. Edited by Will Kymlicka. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995, ix, 387 s. ISBN 0-19-878101-6. info
  • WILLIAMS, Juan. Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965. Edited by Julian Bond. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1988, xv, 300 p. ISBN 0-14-009653-110. info
  • ABRAHAM, Henry J. Freedom and the court : civil rights and liberties in the United states. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972, xii, 397. ISBN 0195015258. info
Výukové metody
1.5 hour seminar per week with extensive classroom discussions. Students will also be viewing (outside of class) The 14-part documentary "Eyes on The Prize".
Metody hodnocení
Assessment will be based on four items:
1. Class participation (10%)
2. Research project (50%)
3. Journal/Diary (20%)
4. Comment Paper (20%)
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován jednou za dva roky.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2013.
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