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Veranstaltungsname	Seminar: Civil Rights and Social Movements in 20th Century America
Untertitel	Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I, Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart, Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil)
Semester	SS 2017
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	11
Heimat-Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp	Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin	Dienstag, 04.04.2017 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: (Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 2)
Art/Form	Seminar
Voraussetzungen	Students who have successfully passed their Basismodul Einführung in das Studium der angloamerikanischen Kulturwissenschaft (ANG.02620.02) are welcome to this class that deals with civil rights and social movements in 20th century America, particularly the evolvement and development of civil rights for Native Americans, African Americans, and women in America (feminist movement).
Lernorganisation	In this class we are using the textbook by Michael Scott-Baumann and Mark Stacey, Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013). Please, get hold of this book [ISBN 978-1-107-69751-5] [ca. 18 €]. In order for students to pick up some skills necessary in academia, we will spend some time on how to do presentations, how to do research, and how to write papers. The university library (OPAC, GBV, KVK and other databases) will be a topic as will be the Internet as a research tool (JStor, Google Scholar etc.). In addition, there will be an introduction to CITAVI and how to use that bibliographical tool. Our model for all written work will be the MLA and its style sheet (7th ed.).
Leistungsnachweis	Please, do not miss more than three classes. (The legal view on Anwesenheitspflicht is preposterous as it ignores the fact that we practice speaking and arguing in English in our seminars.) All students are expected to participate actively in these discussions. Also, students must present in class (20 mins. plus discussion) on a topic to be arranged with the lecturer. It must be accompanied by a handout (Thesenpapier). Please, send your handout to the lecturer a week before your presentation is due. A copy of the reviewed handout must be available to all students on the day of presentation. Reading assignments (secondary literature) will be given on a weekly basis. Studying in groups is encouraged. At the end of the semester BA students will have to write an essay/Hausarbeit (ca. 12-14 pages). The BA essays are due at the end of September.
Studiengänge (für)	Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I ANG.05272.03 Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft 2: Kultur und Gesellschaft der Gegenwart ANG.03588.02 Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft Großbritannien/USA 2 (1. Teil) ANG.04770.02
SWS	2
Sonstiges	LITERATURE TEXTBOOK Scott-Baumann, Michael, and Mark Stacey. Civil Rights and Social Movements in the Americas. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013. [ISBN 978-1-107-69751-5] [ca. 18 €] SECONDARY SOURCES ON THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF AMERICA Did you know that as a student at MLU you are entitled to a free version of Citavi? Citavi manages your sources and, among many other things, produces bibliographies in MLA style with a click of your mouse. Check details at <bibliothek.uni-halle.de/benutz/citavi/>. Berg, Manfred. Geschichte der USA. München: Oldenbourg, 2013. Print. Oldenbourg-Grundriss der Geschichte 42. Brinkley, Alan. American History: A Survey. 11th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2003. Print. Brogan, Hugh. The Penguin History of the United States of America. 2nd ed. London: Penguin Books, 2008. Print. The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature. Ed. Julie Bruckner Armstrong. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015. [The focus in this companion is on creative literature by James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright etc.] Dippel, Horst. Geschichte der USA. 9., überarb. und aktualisierte Aufl. München: Beck, 2010. Print. Beck'sche Reihe C.-H.-Beck-Wissen 2051. Field, Ron. Civil Rights in America, 1865-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Gassert, Philipp, Mark Häberlein, and Michael Wala. Kleine Geschichte der USA. Stuttgart: Reclam, 2007. Print. Heideking, Jürgen, Christof Mauch, and Michael Wala. Geschichte der USA. 6., überarb. und erw. Aufl. Tübingen: Francke, 2008. Print. UTB Geschichte 1938. The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Eds. Michael Kazin, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman. 2 vols. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2010. Edwards, Michael, , and Adam Kazin, eds. Raeithel, Gert. Geschichte der nordamerikanischen Kultur. 3 Bde. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1987-1989. Print. [Vol. 1: Vom Puritanismus bis zum Bürgerkrieg: 1600 – 1860. (1987)] [Vol. 2: Vom Bürgerkrieg bis zum New Deal: 1860 – 1930. (1988)] [Vol. 3: Vom New Deal bis zur Gegenwart: 1930 – 1988. (1989)] Reporting Civil Rights. Ed. Clayborne Carson. 2 vols. New York: The Library of America, 2003. Vol. I: American Journalism 1941-1963. Vol. II: American Journalism 1963-1979. Sautter, Udo. Geschichte der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. 7., völlig überarb. und erw. Aufl. Stuttgart: Kröner, 2006. Print. Kröners Taschenausgabe 443. USA-Lexikon: Schlüsselbegriffe zu Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft, Kultur, Geschichte und zu den deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen. Eds. Christof Mauch, Rüdiger B. Wersich, and Angelika Möller. 2., völlig neu bearb. und wesentlich erw. Aufl. Berlin: Schmidt, 2013. Print.  see "Civil Rights Movement" – MLU UB Steintor, Anglistik 3. OG – call number: A 4.0.-65b Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. Introd. Julian Bond. New York: Penguin Books, 1987. [ www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts10IVzUDVw] Websites: news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/americas/04/us_election/govt_system/html/introduction.stm www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/ www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Americanpoliticalsystem.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts10IVzUDVw
ECTS-Punkte	5

Lehrende

Dr. Martin Meyer

Räume und Zeiten

(Adam-Kuckhoff-Str. 35, SR 2): Dienstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich (15x)

Studienbereiche

Philosophische Fakultät II - Philologien, Kommunikations- und Musikwissenschaften > Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik > Angloamerikanische Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

The rule of law (Rechtsstaatlichkeit) is taken for granted by anybody who has grown up in a country that shows respect for the law as a guiding principle. The rights to vote in elections, to equal treatment under the law, to fair trial and free speech, to exercising the religion one prefers and to gathering in protest against authorities one disagrees with had to be fought for, however. African Americans were freed after the Civil War (1861-65), but that did not mean they were actually able to exercise their civil rights in elections. Why did the number of African Americans registered to vote in Mississippi go up from 7% in 1964 to 68% in 1968? In this seminar we will focus on how discrimination was practiced, how it was made a political issue, and how the law was adjusted to make discrimination illegal.
In order to understand the origins of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century we will look back into American history briefly focusing on the Declaration of Independence, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the Amendments to the Constitution passed in the late 1860s. In order to better understand the development of the CRM after World War II, a sketch of Washington's political institutions is necessary (House of Representatives, Senate). This includes a brief discussion of federal and state responsibilities. Then we will be able to explore the CRM and learn how Native and African Americans claimed their share of democracy in America. Later we will look at the achievements of the social and women's movements. At the end of the seminar we will ask what the CRM has achieved.
Students will learn that having the same rights as others does not mean they can be practiced unless there is a strong power that is willing and able to punish disregard. In order to have governments actually do what they preach, political consciousness is required as much as strong popular support.