南山大学

 
指定
期間
夏期前半
単位
年次
1・2
担当者
SUGRUE Thomas
講義題目 The Struggle Against Racial Inequality in the United States, 1940-1980
開講キャンパス
講義内容 Focusing on both North and South, we will consider such topics as the lived experience of Jim Crow in the South; racial conflict and deindustrialization in Northern cities; and the role of religion and religious leaders. We will also focus on the struggle against racial inequality---also known as the civil rights movement---in the North and the South. This lecture will be offered as an intensive course in early August.
学修目標 This course will explore the history of racial inequality in the modern United States and the struggles against it.
講義計画 The lectures will deal with the following topics based on the readings which will mainly consist of excerpts from the books listed below.
I. LIFE IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH
 Reading: Excerpts from Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad, and William Chafe, eds., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South(New Press)
II. RACE, ECONOMICS, AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE AMERICAN CITY
 Reading: Thomas J. Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis(Princeton University Press or Japanese translation, Akashi Shoten)
III. RACE AND RELIGION IN THE NORTH
 Reading: Selections from John McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North(University of Chicago Press).
IV. THE SOUTHERN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
 Reading: Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom(University of California Press)
V. RELIGION AND CIVIL RIGHTS: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
 Reading: Thomas F. Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice(University of Pennsylvania Press)
VI. THE NORTHERN FREEDOM STRUGGLE
 Reading: Excerpts from Thomas Sugrue, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Unfinished Struggle for Racial Equality in the North(typescript available from author).
評価方法 The evaluation for this course will be announced at the beginning of the spring semester.
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