Detail of mural by René Mederos.
Syllabus - Fall 2008
Priscilla Murolo HIST-3706-R
North 10, x2283 Tues/Fri 11:05-12:30
pmurolo at slc.edu Sheffield 01
The
Sixties
Detail
of mural by René Mederos.
Syllabus
- Fall 2008
Priscilla Murolo HIST-3706-R
North 10, x2283 Tues/Fri
11:05-12:30
pmurolo at slc.edu
Sheffield 01
N.B.: Class will sometimes end at 1:00 or 1:30; see the schedule for details.
Class Work
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Reading:
All of the required reading is on reserve at the
library or available on line. Texts listed below
are also at the bookstore.
Tariq Ali, Street-Fighting Years: An Autobiography of the Sixties
Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman
Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
David Farber and Beth Bailey, The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
Diane Fujino, Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama
Ignacio Garcia, Chicanismo: The Forging of a Militant Ethos among Mexican
Americans
George Katsiaficas, The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of
1968
Anne Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History (5th edition,
2006)
Rius, Marx for Beginners
Cynthia Young, Soul Power, Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S.
Third World Left
Course journal:
For each reading assignment, write a one- or two-page essay that addresses the
journal question(s) for that assignment and supports your response with evidence
from the text(s). Journals entries must be submitted when we discuss the relevant
text(s) and will be returned in batches, in early October, November, and December.
Library session: On October 3, class will meet in the library's electronic classroom for instruction on research tools and methods.
Conference Work
Students may undertake research on any aspect of the history of the sixties. Writing for conference may take various forms: research papers, historiographical essays, annotated bibliographies, annotated collections of primary documents, or historical fiction. Click here for guidelines.
The due dates for various phases of conference work are:
November 11 - prospectus and
bibliography
December 16 - detailed outline
January 27 - first draft of
the conference paper
When we reconvene after the winter break, the whole class
will read each student's first draft and discuss it in class. Conference papers
will be expanded, revised, and polished in the spring.
C L A S S S C H E D
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THE ASTERISK (*) DENOTES ITEMS ON RESERVE IN THE COURSE NOTEBOOK. THE POUND (#) DENOTES ITEMS AVAILABLE VIA ONE OF THE LIBRARY'S ONLINE DATABASES OR THE DOCUMENTS PAGE ON THIS WEBSITE.
Tues 9/9
Introduction to the Course
Reading:
Farber and Bailey, Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s, parts 1, 6,
and 7 (pp. 1-76, 435-489)
*#Van Gosse, "Consensus and Contradiction in Textbook Treatments of the
Sixties," Journal of American History 82:2 (September 1995): 658-669;
available via JSTOR
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS A JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT FOR THIS DAY.
CLASS ENDS AT 1:00.
Fri 9/12
NO CLASS
Tues 9/16
Artifacts
Reading:
Farber and Bailey, Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s, parts 1, 6,
and 7 (pp. 1-76, 435-489)
Come to class with an artifact of the sixties and a one-page essay on what it adds to the picture presented in part 1 of the Columbia Guide.
CLASS ENDS AT 1:00.
Fri 9/19
Freedom Now!
Reading:
Moody, Coming of Age in Mississippi
In class: Mississippi: Is this America? (Eyes
on the Prize, Series 1, Episode 5)
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Tues 9/23
From Omaha to Mecca
Reading:
#Malcolm X, "Message
to the Grass Roots" and "The
Ballot or the Bullet"
Click on the titles to read and listen to these speeches on the
website www.americanrhetoric.com.
In class: Malcolm X: His Own Story as it Really Happened
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Fri 9/26
Revolutionary Nationalism
Reading:
Fujino, Heartbeat of Struggle
Tues 9/30
Revolutionary Arts
Reading:
*selected poems from LeRoi Jones and Larry Neal, eds., Black Fire: an Anthology
of Afro-American Writing
*selected poems from Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman: An Anthology
In class: listen to Marvin Gaye, What's Going On, and selections from
Gil Scott Heron, The Revolution Will not be Televised.
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Fri 10/3
Library Session
CLASS MEETS IN THE LIBRARY'S ELECTRONIC CLASSROOM FOR BIBLIOGRAPHIC INSTRUCTION.
Tues 10/7
Nationalism and Internationalism
Reading:
Young, Soul Power
Fri 10/10
United Front Against Imperialism I
Reading:
#Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam (September 2, 1945)
#President Sukarno of Indonesia, Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference,
April 18, 1955
#Anwar el Sadat, "Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World Mission of the Peoples
of Africa and Asia" (1957)
#All African People's Conference, Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism,
Accra, December 5-13, 1958
#Kwame Nkrumah, "I Speak of Freedom"
(1961)
#Frantz Fanon, "Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for
Freedom,"in The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
#Mao Tse Tung, "Patriotism and Internationalism," in Quotations
of Chairman Mao Tse Tung (1964)
#Ernesto Che Guevara, "Message to the Tricontinental," circa 1967
*Report of the Bilderberg Meeting at Hotel Marienlyst, Elsinore, Denmark, May
9-11, 1969
GO TO THE DOCUMENTS PAGE FOR LINKS TO THE ITEMS MARKED WITH A POUND (#). ITEMS MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK (*) ARE ON RESERVE IN THE COURSE NOTEBOOK.
Tues 10/14
United Front Against Imperialism II
Reading:
*James Baldwin, "East River, Downtown: Postscript
to a Letter from Harlem" (1961), in Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
#Black Panther Party, Platform and Program,
October 1966
#Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam:
A Time to Break Silence," April 4, 1967
#American Indian Movement, Founding of AIM (1968) and Three Point Program (circa
1975)
#Chicano Youth Liberation Conference, Denver, El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán,
March 1969
#Frances Beal, "Black Women's Manifesto" (1969)
*Roxanne Dunbar, "Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution"
(1969), in Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings
from the Women's Liberation Movement
*from Alma Garcia, ed., Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings:
documents by Mirta Vidal, Elvira Saragoza, Elizabeth Martínez, and
Anonymous (1969-1971) )
#I Wor Kuen, inaugural issue of Getting Together,
February 1970; articles on New York Chinatown, Serve-the-People Programs, Black
Panther Party
*Huey P. Newton, "Speech Delivered at Boston College: November 18, 1970,"
in David Hilliard and Donald Weise, eds., The Huey P. Newton Reader
GO TO THE DOCUMENTS PAGE FOR LINKS TO ITEMS MARKED WITH A POUND (#). ITEMS MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK (*) ARE ON RESERVE IN THE COURSE NOTEBOOK.
Fri 10/17
Anti-Imperialism at the Movies I
Reading:
*Francee Covington, "Are the Revolutionary Techniques Employed in The Battle
of Algiers Applicable to Harlem?," in Bambara, ed., The Black Woman
In class: The Battle of Algiers
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Tues 10/21
OCTOBER BREAK - no class
Fri 10/24
Vietnam
Reading:
Dang, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace
Tues 10/28
Vietnam Vets
Reading:
O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Fri 10/31
GI Revolt
Reading:
*excerpts from Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, eds., "Takin' It to
the Streets": a Sixties Reader
Explore the Sir! No Sir! website at http://sirnosir.com.
In class: Sir! No Sir!
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Tues 11/4
The Politics of Eros
Reading:
Katsiaficas, The Imagination of the New Left
Come to class with an artifact of the politics of eros and with your course
journal entry for this day.
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
Fri 11/7
Popular Marxism
Reading:
Rius, Marx for Beginners
Tues 11/11
Anti-Imperialism at the Movies II
In class: Burn!
CLASS ENDS AT 1:30.
HAND IN PROSPECTUS/BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE CONFERENCE PROJECT.
Fri 11/14
Women's Liberation
Reading:
*from Robin Morgan, ed., Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings
from the Women's Liberation Movement:
- Morgan's introduction
- Martha Shelly, "Notes
of a Radical Lesbian"
- Frances Beal, "Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female"
- Women's Collective of the New York High School Students'
Union, "Excerpts from the Diaries of All Oppressed Women"
- National Organization for Women, "NOW Bill of Rights"
- "Redstockings Manifesto"
- Pat Mainardi, "The Politics of Housework"
- "No More Miss America"
*from Alma Garcia, ed., Chicana Feminist Thought: The
Basic Historical Writings (1969-71): documents by Jennie Chávez,
Anna NietoGomez, Anna NietoGomez and Elma Barrera, and Anonymous
*from Rachel DuPlessis and Ann Snitow, eds., The Feminist
Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation:
- editors' introduction
- memoirs of Barbara Emerson, Elizabeth Martinez, Meridith
Tax, Joan Nestle, and Barbara Omolade
- responses to the memoirs (pp. 467-495)
- chronology (pp. 496-512)
Tues 11/18
Living the Revolution
Reading:
Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman
Fri 11/21
The Rock
In class: Alcatraz is Not an Island
CLASS ENDS AT 1:00.
Tues 11/25
AIM
Reading:
Crow Dog, Lakota Woman
Fri 11/28
THANKSGIVING BREAK - no class
Tues 12/2
Aztlán
Reading:
García, Chicanismo
Fri 12/5
El Nuevo Despertar
Reading:
*selections from Andrés Torres and José Velázquez, eds.,
The Puerto Rican Movement: Voices from
The Diaspora:
- Pablo Guzman, "La Vida Pura: A Lord of the Barrio"
- Iris Morales, "¡PALANTE, SIEMPRE PALANTE! The Young Lords"
Explore the website at http://www.palante.org/.
In class: ¡PALANTE, SIEMPRE PALANTE! The Young Lords
Tues 12/9
Beyond Stonewall
Reading:
*Terence Kissack, "Freaking Fag Revolutionaries:
New York's Gay Liberation Front, 1969-1971," Radical History Review
62 (Spring 1995)
*Luis Aponte-Parés and Jorge Merced, "Páginas
Omitídas: The Gay and Lesbian Presence," in Torres and Velázquez,
eds., The Puerto Rican Movement
*Diwas Kc, "Of Consciousness and Criticism: Identity in the Intersections
of the Gay Liberation Front and Young Lords Party" (M.A. Thesis, Sarah
Lawrence College, 2005)
Fri 12/12
Ali Bombaye
In class: When We Were Kings
CLASS ENDS AT 1:00.
Tues 12/16
Informal Meeting and Celebration
HAND IN A DETAILED OUTLINE OF THE CONFERENCE PAPER (one paper copy and a digital copy via email or on a CD or diskette). THE DOCUMENT MUST BE IN RICH TEXT FORMAT OR MS WORD. DO NOT SUBMIT READ-ONLY DOCUMENTS.
Fri 12/19 - no class
To read over the winter break: Ali, Street-Fighting Years