AJ17068 Vznik amerických ras a kultur

Filozofická fakulta
podzim 2013
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. (plus 2 za zk). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: z.
Vyučující
doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)
Garance
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Rozvrh
Čt 14:10–15:45 G32
Předpoklady
( AJ09999 Postupová zkouška || AJ01002 Anglický jazyk II ) && AJ07002 Úvod do studia kultury USA II
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Students who successfully complete the course will be able to understand, explain, and work effectively with concepts and methods of cultural analysis helpful in other courses and in thesis projects dealing with American culture, history and politics.
Osnova
  • This course aims to equip students to understand and analyze American culture, politics and race relations in light of the underlying “deep structures” of regionalism and group identity that have shaped them over time. Lectures, discussions, readings, and film/video screenings will address the original settlements that gave rise to America’s various regional and sub-cultures, the impact of successive waves of immigration and internal migration, the changing definitions of race and ethnicity, and the complex interplay among groups that informs today’s political and artistic developments.

    26 September: Introduction; America’s “Cold Civil War”

    3 October: Imagining a “New” World

    Readings: excerpts from Anderson, Imagined Communities, and others as posted

    10 October: Religious conflicts and the motives for migrating

    Readings: excerpts from Cullen, The American Dream, and others as posted

    17 October: Cultural “hearths” and the origins of America’s “nations”

    Readings: Woodard, “The Real U.S. Map” (parts 1-5), and other excerpts posted

    24 October: America’s changing “regimes” and party systems

    Readings: excerpts from Keller, America’s Three Regimes, and others as posted

    31 October: Reading week; no class meeting

    7 November: American races and race concepts

    Readings: excerpts from Perry, “Race” and Racism, and others as posted

    14 November: Anglo-America, Euro-America, and Multicultural America

    Readings: excerpts from Lind, The Next American Nation, and others as posted

    21 November: American countercultures and alternative identities

    Readings: excerpts from Goffman and Joy, Counterculture Through the Ages, and others as posted

    28 November: Artistic expressions of American cultures

    Readings: excerpts from Lawson, Jim Crow’s Counterculture, and others as posted

    5 December: Changing demographics, “Southern exceptionalism” and U.S. politics today

    Readings: excerpts from Lind, Made in Texas, and others as posted

    12 December: Review and conclusion

Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • ANDERSON, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedi. Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. Rev. and extended ed. London: Verso, 1991, xv, 224 p. ISBN 0-86091-329-5. info
  • Books: Woodard, American Nations; Cullen, The American Dream; Lind, The Next American Nation; Keller, America’s Three Regimes; Goffman/Joy, Counterculture Through the Ages; other short readings and excerpts as indicated on the syllabus
Výukové metody
Lectures, readings, class discussions
Metody hodnocení
Final paper (due by e-mail during the exam period), 80% Attendance and participation, 20%
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
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