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Academic Year 2004/2005

Politics and Power: Democracy and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's
GOVT 103 FA

In this course, we will study the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and the struggle for racial equality today in light of the questions and issues it raises for American ideology and democratic theory and practice. We will look at assumptions about the American political process and the distribution of power, the role of the elite and ordinary citizen, and the system's response to challenges and change, focusing in particular on how relations of power and powerlessness are played out in the larger social and political order.

MAJOR READINGS

THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK EQUALITY (SFBE), Harvard Sitkoff THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, as told to Alex Haley BLACK PROTEST: HISTORY, DOCUMENTS AND ANALYSES, 1619 TO THE PRESENT, Joanne Grant

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two papers, journal final exam.

COURSE FORMAT: Seminar

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-21-2005

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