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Seminar: The American Civil Rights Movement - Vertiefungsmodul - Details
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Course name Seminar: The American Civil Rights Movement - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.05294.03; ANG.06145.02
Semester WS 2021/22
Current number of participants 18
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Thursday, 14.10.2021 10:30 - 12:00, Room: Seminarraum 5 (R.E.61) [EA 26-27
Studiengänge (für) ANG.05294.03 für LA Gym Englisch (2012+2015) / MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015) / MA IKEAS 120 LP (2015) / MA Intern. Area Stud. (2011+2015)
ANG.06145.02 für MA Angloam. Lit., Spr u Kult. 120 LP (2015) / MA IKEAS 120 LP (2015) / MA Intern. Area Stud. (2011+2015)
SWS 2

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement six years ago has made the U.S. painfully aware of the fact that some of the goals set forth by the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s have not been reached: for instance, the income gap between black and white Americans has not decreased but rather increased and the U.S. is far away from an age of colorblindness as recent race-motivated shootings tragically show. But before we start to discuss and evaluate the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, we need to make ourselves familiar with the history, goals, and actual achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. Consequently, in the first half of our course, we will read chapters from the prizewinning book Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954–1964 and analyze all kinds of documents (speeches, interviews, photographs, eyewitness accounts, etc.) from the accompanying reader (Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader) as well as watch and discuss several episodes from the documentary on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts10IVzUDVw – Part One). The second part of our course will be devoted to contemporary assessments of racism in the US. We will read sections from a few highly relevant texts, including Michelle Alexander’s seminal work The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2012), Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me (2017), and Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (2018). A discussion of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on contemporary American society and culture will conclude our course.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Beschränkte Teilnehmendenanzahl: The American Civil Rights Movement - Vertiefungsmodul".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 20.09.2021, 01:00 to 31.10.2021, 23:00.