Syllabus
Dissent in America
Dr. Ralph Young (ryoung@temple.edu)
The course is a block course, the class will meet in the following dates in 2022: 9-13 May (15:30-18:20) at the Skautsky Institut, room "René": https://www.skautskyinstitut.cz/rene
Topics: 1) The European Origins, Dissent in the Colonies, the Early Republic
Luther, Calvin, Puritanism, Roger Williams, John Peter Zenger, Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, Thomas Hutchinson
Readings: Dissent in America, 1-85 2) Dissent in the 19th Century
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, John Brown, Civil War dissenters,
Chief Joseph, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Carl Schurz, Mother Jones
Readings: DiA, 87-232 3) Progressivism and Wars
The Socialist Party, IWW, Emma Goldman, Joe Hill, Eugene V. Debs, Randolph Bourne, Marcus Garvey, Margaret Sanger, H.L. Mencken, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Margaret Chase Smith, Paul Robeson, the Beats
Readings: DiA, 233-338 4) The 1960s: Civil Rights, Vietnam, & the Counterculture
Martin Luther King, Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Stokely Carmichael, Black Panther Party, SDS, The Weather Underground, Timothy Leary, Make Love Not War, Protest Music: Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, The Fugs, Creedence Clearwater Revival, From Columbia to the Sorbonne to the Prague Spring.
Readings: DiA, 339-403 5) Mobilization and the Globalization of DissentRedstockings, Stonewall, Ani DiFranco, Immortal Technique, The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Arab Spring, Brexit, Trumpianism.
Readings: DiA, 403-478