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The course homepage is located at http://homepage.univie.ac.at/eugen.banauch/

Exam will be held on June 24, 10.00-12.00, C2.

General information

Session 1

  • (cultural studies theory)

Session 2

Session 3

Session 4

Session 5

Session 6

  • In the 1850s, the total population of the country exceeded 23 millions, and of these, 3,2 million were slaves. (14%) In certain slave states, the ratio was much more extreme of course; in South Carolina and in Mississippi, there number of slaves exceeded the number of whites; in Louisiana and in Alabama, they nearly equalled the whites. Also in certain regions, the ratio was even more extreme, so, for example, along the river of the Mississippi, it was 90% slaves and 10% whites, or at the Georgia coast it was 80% Slaves and 20% whites. There were, however, regions in which the slaves made up less that 10%, especially in large parts of the Appalachian Mountains from Maryland to Alabama. They were virtually slavefree. And when we look a t the South as a whole, we can note that only a minority held slaves. The South had – in the 1950s - a population of 6 million whites; of these, about 350,000 were slave owners. About 3,000 families owned the majority of slaves. When we consider that there were 3,2 million slaves in the US at that time, it becomes obvious that some white families owned several thousand slaves who worked in their cotton fields

Session 7

Session 8

  • federal authorities may punish obstruction of voter registration and of other rights
  • - U.S. President may employ U.S. military to uphold federal law
  • FEDERAL LAW: U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1896:
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson - doctrine of "separate but equal"
  • The Twentieth Century:
  • 1909, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • 1911, National Urban League
  • desegregation
  • 1946: Supreme Court: segregation on public buses is unconstitutional
  • 1947: Jackie Robinson (AA), major league baseball player
  • 1948: President Truman integrates the Armed Forces
  • 1950, Supreme Court: Sweatt v. Painter (also see McLaurin v. Oklahoma)
  • 1954: Supreme Court: Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
  • - decision overrules Plessy v. Ferguson
  • - "Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal"

Session 9

Session 10

cancelled, text available here

Session 11

Reader

From Colonial Times to the Present

  • MANDATORY READING J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur. Letters from an American Farmer. From Letter III. “What is an American?” In: P. Lauter: Heath Anthology, 2002. p 905-910.
  • MANDATORY READING Frederick Jackson Turner. “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” (1893) (excerpt) In: Martin Ridge (ed.):Frederick Jackson Turner. Madison, 1993.

Immigration / Ethnic Diversity

  • MANDATORY READING Henry Roth. “Prologue” In: Roth: Call It Sleep. New York, 1934.
  • MANDATORY READING Anzia Yezierska. “Hester Street” (excerpt) In Yezierska: Bread Givers. New York, 1925.


African Americans / Civil Rights Movements

  • MANDATORY READING Abraham Lincoln. ‘Final Emancipation Proclamation’ (1863) In: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859 – 1865. New York, 1993.
  • MANDATORY READING Malcolm X “The Ballot or the Bullet” and “The Black Man” In: George Breitman (ed.) Malcolm X Speaks. New York, 1963.


Native Americans

  • Buffy Saint-Marie. My Country (1971) In: H.H. Hoyrup (ed.) Red Indians: The First Americans. Copenhagen, 1974.


Women’s Rights

  • Susan B. Anthony. “Are Women Persons?” (1873) In: America. Classics that help define the Nation. Random, 1999.

Religion

  • “Introduction” In: Anders Briedlid (ed) American Culture. London, 1998.

US America and Beyond

  • James Monroe. “The Monroe Doctrine” excerpt (1832) In: Site of the U.S. Department of State

(http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/50.htm)

  • MANDATORY READING George W. Bush (delivered by). “Text of Bush Inaugural Speech” (01/2005) In: Site of the CBS

(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/01/20/politics/main668129.shtml)

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