[PEN-L:3912] Re: The Vietnam War Era and the Sixties

["Seth Sandronsky" <ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

To those books suggested I'd add an excellent one on the black freedom
movement titled "SNCC: The New Abolitionists" by Howard Zinn.

Seth Sandronsky

ssandron@xxxxxxxxxxx



>Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:24:30 -0800
>To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>From: Steve Cullenberg <stephen.cullenberg@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [PEN-L:3862] The Vietnam War Era and the Sixties
>Reply-To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>I am currently involved in planning an undergraduate "cluster course"
for
>next year with two collegues, one in English/Film Studies and the other
a
>historian.  We are developing a year-long course which will be
>interdisciplinary and have about 150 students in it (large lectures
with TA
>sections).  The class will be mostly sophomores out of a student body
that
>is 43% Asian (a large percentage of whom are Vietnamese), 22% Latino,
30%
>Caucasian, 5% African American.  The topic for our course is "The
Vietnam
>War Era and the Sixties".  Our plan is to integrate history, film,
>literature, politics, music and political economy that focuses on the
>transformations in the sixties in the US and abroad as well.  We will
>certainly begin in the fifties and probably end up around Watergate.
>
>Our provisional plan is cover a number of different topic areas.  We
are
>still discussing best how to integrate them.  The topics are as
follows:
>(1) the rise of the welfare state and golden age capitalism, (2)
poverty
>and the Great Society programs, (2) race and civil rights, (3) the
women's
>movement and gender inequality, (4) liberation struggles against
>colonialism and imperialism, especially Vietnam, (5) the student
movement.
>
>This is a new course for me to teach and I would very much appreciate
>any related course syllabae, and especially any references to
appropriate
>readings related to the "political economy" or other aspects of the
above
>topics.  Suggestions for other topics would be appreciated as well.
>
>Thanks in advance for help with references.
>
>Steve C.
>
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