{"id":31,"date":"2010-03-11T10:44:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T17:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/2010\/01\/intellectual-currents-and-turning-points-in-american-thought\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T17:17:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T00:17:20","slug":"intellectual-currents-and-turning-points-in-american-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi215\/2010\/03\/intellectual-currents-and-turning-points-in-american-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Intellectual Currents and Turning Points in American Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"

(17)\tTues 3\/23\tThoreau: Transcendentalism<\/strong>
\nReading: Thoreau, Walden<\/em> (entire)
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\n(18)\tThurs 3\/25\tPragmatism<\/strong>
\nReading: Menand, Ch 13 “Pragmatisms” and William James, Pragmatism Lecture II: read at Project Gutenberg online, pp. 16-29<\/a>, or here’s a 12-page PDF<\/a> of the same text<\/p>\n

(19)\tTues 3\/30\tCivil Disobedience, Civil Liberties<\/strong>
\nReading: Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (if your edition of Walden<\/em> does not contain it, you can read it online here<\/a>); King, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” MLK\/Malcolm X book pp. 74-90<\/p>\n

(20)\tThurs 4\/1\tFrom the Bench<\/strong> – Curriculum Unit due<\/strong><\/span>
\nReading: Whitney v. CA (1927) – About the Case<\/a>, Full Text<\/a>
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\nKorematsu v. US (1944) – About the Case<\/a>, Full Text<\/a>
\n(Aside: here’s the discussion of lawyers<\/a> considering which case I should have you read)<\/p>\n

(21)\tTues 4\/6\tHowl: the 1960s, Liberty and Liberation<\/strong>
\nReading: to get a sense of the voice of protest and proclamation in the 1950s\/1960s, the bold yawp of a new generation, I’d like everyone to read Alan Ginsberg, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Howl<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (1956). If you prefer, you can listen to Ginsberg reading his poem aloud in a 2007 special event<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then, I’m giving you a short list of other manifestos (and consider what IS a manifesto, anyway? – and why did this era see so many of them?) and I hope that you’ll read at least 2-3 of them if not all. Think about where and why these statements were written, published, and publicized. <\/p>\n

Young Americans for Freedom, Sharon Statement<\/a> (1960)
\nStudents for a Democratic Society, Port Huron Statement<\/a> (1962)
\n“No More Miss America!” <\/a>(1968)
\nBlack Woman’s Manifesto<\/a> (1970)
\nPoet Power<\/a> (1968)
\nIndians of All Nations, Proclamation to the Great White Father and his People<\/a> (1969)
\nJames Foreman\/ SNCC, Black Manifesto<\/a> (1969)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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