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Academic Year 2003/2004

Politics and Culture of the Southern States
HIST 232 SP
Crosslistings:
AMST 230
AFAM 232

How does a region of the United States come to see itself as distinct, with a unique past and different cultural practices? Beginning in the colonial period and ending in the 20th-century Sun Belt, this course will explore various reasons that the former Confederate states are viewed as sharing a common history. Topics will include plantation slavery and its consequences for all southerners, black and white; the production of a racial caste system and its relationship to social class; Confederate nationhood and its mythic legacy; the solid South in national politics; the rise of an industrial New South; struggles for social change; and Christianity as a force for conservation and liberation.

MAJOR READINGS

Steven Stowe, INTIMACY AND POWER IN THE OLD SOUTH Booker T. Washington, UP FROM SLAVERY
Eric Foner, NOTHING BUT FREEDOM
Drew Faust, THE CREATION OF CONFEDERATE NATIONALISM
Jacquelyn Hall, LIKE A FAMILY
Nell I. Painter, THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF HOSEA HUDSON

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short papers, midterm and take-home final.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2004

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