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SAKS04 Regionální anglofonní kultury severoamerického areálu

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doc. Jeffrey Alan Smith, M.A., Ph.D. (přednášející)

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doc. PhDr. Tomáš Pospíšil, Ph.D.
Centrum severoamerických studií – Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Tomáš Hanzálek
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Centrum severoamerických studií – Katedra anglistiky a amerikanistiky – Filozofická fakulta

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! AJ27073 SA kulturní zeměpis

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Cíle předmětu

Historical survey of the origins and evolution of the English-speaking cultural regions of North America, principally the United States, including: settlement patterns and sources of regional diversity; immigration and ethnic subcultures; urbanization and suburbanization; and the development and geographical distribution of contemporary political cultures and identities. Students completing the course successfully will be conversant with these concepts, familiar with details and evidence associated with each of them, and able to make use of them analytically in further studies dealing with historical, cultural and political topics involving the North American Anglosphere.

Osnova

• NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, assigned readings are available in the relevant folders at tiny.cc/NACulturalGeographies.
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• WEEK 1 (20 February): Course introduction
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• WEEK 2 (27 February): ENVISIONING THE LANDSCAPE; EARLY SETTLEMENT AND CULTURAL "HEARTHS" (17th - 18th centuries)
• Read:
• > Sanford, "Quest for Paradise," posted excerpts
• > Woodard, "The Real U.S. Map"
• ALSO read (no specific due date -- see "core readings" folder):
• > Fischer, Albion's Seed, posted excerpts
• > Robinson, summaries of Albion's Seed
• > Woodard, American Nations: Introduction, chapters 21, 23-28, and Epilogue
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• WEEK 3 (6 March): INDEPENDENCE, EXPANSION, THE FRONTIER (18th - 19th centuries)
• Read:
• > Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," posted excerpts
• > Axtell, "Colonial America Without the Indians"
• > Bryant, "The Prairies"
• > Hawthorne, Sleepy Hollow journal entry, posted excerpt
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• WEEK 4 -- class canceled
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• WEEK 5 (20 March): INDUSTRIALIZATION, IMMIGRATION, ETHNIC CHANGE (19th - 20th centuries)
• Read:
• > Gerber, American Immigration, posted excerpts
• > Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness, posted excerpts
• > Horsman, Race & Manifest Destiny, posted excerpts
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• WEEK 6 (27 March): SOUTHERN EXCEPTIONALISM AND THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA (19th - 20th centuries)
• Read:
• > Cobb, Away Down South, posted excerpts
• > Berlin, The Making of African America, chapter 1
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• WEEK 7 (3 April): MULTICULTURAL AMERICA (20th century)
• Read:
• > Lind, The Next American Nation, posted excerpts
• > King, "America's Post-Multiculturalist Settlement"
• > STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 1
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• WEEK 8 (10 April): SUBURBANIZATION, "SPRAWL," AND THE SUNBELT (20th century)
• Read:
• > Bueregard, "Identity and Urbanity"
• > Cullen, "The Dream of Home Ownership"
• > Fishman, "Urbanity vs. Suburbanity: France and the US"
• > STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 2
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• WEEK 9 (17 April): READING WEEK -- NO CLASS MEETING
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• WEEK 10 (24 April): DEINDUTRIALIZATION, NEW MIGRATIONS, AND THE POLITICS OF RED, WHITE AND BLUE (20th - 21st centuries)
• Read:
• > Duany et. al., "What is Sprawl, and Why?"
• > Gutreund, Twentieth-Century Sprawl, posted excerpts
• > Sprawl in Atlanta (3 articles posted)
• > Russell, "On the Embattled 'Burbs"
• > Graham, "Red State, Blue City"
• > STUDENT PRESENTATIONS 3
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• WEEKS 11-12 (1 and 8 May): THE POLITICS OF RED, WHITE AND BLUE, continued; ENVISIONING THE 21st-CENTURY LANDSCAPE
• (Readings only; no class meetings in 2017 due to national holidays)
• Read:
• > Hasan, "Top Democrats are Wrong About Trump Supporters"
• > Gunn, "How to Save Coal Country"
• > Popper and Popper, "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust"
• > Rees, "Buffalo Commons: Responses to a Radical Vision"
• > Miller, "How Geography Explains the United States"
• > Brooks, "The Unifying American Story"
• > Wolin, "Site of Catastrophe," posted excerpts

Literatura

povinná literatura
• Timothy L Hall, Religion in America. New York: American Experience / Facts on File, 2007.
• Colin Woodard, American nations: a history of the eleven rival regional cultures of North America. New York: Viking, 2011.
• BERLIN, Ira. The making of African America : the four great migrations. New York: Viking, 2010, 304 s. ISBN 9780670021376. info

doporučená literatura
• Jonathan Halperin Earle, The Routledge atlas of African American history. Routledge, 2000.
• Warren A Beck; Ynez D Haase, Historical atlas of the American West. University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.
• Michael Lind, The next American nation: the new nationalism and the fourth American revolution. Free Press, 1995.
• The Settling of North America: the atlas of the great migrations into North America from the Ice Age to the present. Macmillan, ©1995.
• FISCHER, David Hackett. Albion's seed : four British folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, xxi, 946. ISBN 0195037944. info

neurčeno
• John Miller, Egotopia: Narcissism and the New American Landscape. University of Alabama Press, 1997.
• Jim Cullen, The American dream: a short history of an idea that shaped a nation. Oxford University Press, 2003.
• H.B. Cavalcanti, Gloryland: Christian Suburbia, Christian Nation. Praeger, 2007.
• William S Saunders, Sprawl and suburbia: a Harvard design magazine reader. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2005.
• Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish became White. Routledge, 1995.
• James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Thomas Frank, What's the matter with Kansas?: How conservatives won the heart of America. Metropolitan Books, 2004.
• James Axtell, After Columbus: Essays in the ethnohistory of colonial North America. Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Owen D. Gutfreund, Twentieth century sprawl: highways and the reshaping of the American Landscape. Oxford University Press, 2004.
• Michael Lind, Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern takeover of American politics. Basic Books, 2003.
• Byron E. Shafer and Richard Johnston, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, race, and partisan change in the postwar South. Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Robert Fishman, Bourgeois utopias: the rise and fall of suburbia. Basic Books, 1987.
• David R. Roediger, The wages of whiteness: race and the making of the American working class. Verso, 1991.
• Desmond King, The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Stephen A Flanders, Atlas of American migration. Facts on File, 1998.

Výukové metody

Readings, lectures, discussions, presentations

Metody hodnocení

Final exam (to be scheduled); the "re-sit" will be an essay; also, one in-class report

Vyučovací jazyk

Angličtina

Informace učitele

http://tiny.cc/NACulturalGeographies

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