H 161: American Radicalism (3-0-6)
Class meeetings: Tuesdays 7:00 - 10:00 p.m., 117 Dabney
The course will cover a number of radical social, political, and artistic movements in Twentieth Century America. A focus on the first two decades of the century will center around the poet, journalist, and revolutionary, John Reed, and his circle in Greenwich Village. Topics will include his and their involvements with artistic experimentation, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, and the movements for birth control and against American involvement in the World War. Other areas of concentration will be the Great Depression of the thirties, with its leftist political and labor actions, and the free wheeling radicalism of the sixties, including the anti Viet Name protests, Students for a Democratic Society, and the ethnic struggles for social and political equality. Some reference will be made to the anti-globalization movements of today.
Instructor: Rosenstone
Readings
- 01. The Capitalist.pdf
- 02. Where the Heart.pdf
- 03. A Taste of Justice.pdf
- 04. Mac-American.pdf
- 05. Trader's War.pdf
- 06. What I Believe.pdf
- 07. Marriage and Love.pdf
- 08. Outrage at San Diego.pdf
- 09. No Communism in Russia.pdf
- 10. The Radicalism of the Dispossessed.pdf
- 11. Reds as History.pdf
- 12. Chapt 6 Telling lives.pdf
- 13. Chapt 5 Documentary.pdf
- 14. Divided Left.pdf
- 15. Waiting for Lefty (Chapt. 5 Roosevelt.pdf
- 16. One Third of a Nation -Chapt. 6 Roosevelt.pdf
- 17. Crusade-Chap 2.pdf
- 18. Crusade-Chap 3&4.pdf
- 19. Crusade-Chap 5.pdf
- 20. Crusade-Chap 12.pdf
- 21. Crusade-Chap 16&17.pdf
- 22. Times A'Changin'.pdf