M1 - The Fities

Jan 30: What were the Fifties? A general introduction

Feb 6: End of the introduction. Discussion of the following documents : 1) Irving Howe, "The Age of Conformity" (1954); 2) "The Paradox of Change," excerpt from W. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey, OUP, 1986.

Feb 13: The Cold War as defining factor. Discussion of the following documents : 1) Guy Oakes, The Cold War Conception of Nuclear Reality: Mobilizing the American Imagination for Nuclear War in the 1950's, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 1993; 2) Greg Barnhisel, Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950s," Book History 13 (2010)

Feb 20: McCarthyism and the great witch hunt. Discussion of the following documents : 1) "Conservative Battles for Public Education," 2) "Religion, Culture, and the Cold War," and 3) Joseph McCarthy on Communism.

Feb 27: Follow up on McCarthyism and the great witch hunt.
Beginning of "The great Civil Rights battles."
Discussion of the following documents : 1) General presentation.
Another look at race in the fifities, from the bottom up : 2) "The Perils of the Back Seat: Date Rape,Race and Gender in 1950s America" ; 3) "Jim Crow, Civil Defense, and the Hydrogen Bomb: Race, Evacuation Planning, and the Geopolitics of Fear in 1950s Savannah, Georgia"

March 5: winter break

March 12: Special guest lecture by Dr. Ksenija Kondali, professor at the University of Sarajevo: "Equality Now: The African American Civil Rights Movement."

March 19: Follow-up on "race in the 50s" : "The Perils of the Back Seat: Date Rape,Race and Gender in 1950s America". Looking at young women and young people : 2) A“Very Innocent Time”: Oral History Narratives, Nostalgia and Girls’Safety in the 1950s and 1960s; 3) The Subversive Nature of Girl Scouting in the 1950s.

Primary and secondary sources on the Civil Rights

Beginning of new syllabus.

For March 26 : try to watch these films :

Racism, School Desegregation Laws and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (51mn film in Clinton, TN)
Racism in America Small Town 1950s Case Study Documentary Film (30mn documentary on a town in PA)
The Montgomery Bus Boycott (7mn)
Desegregation in Corporate America (a fiction on the topic, with some serious sexist comments at the beginning.

You may also read this very interesting Letter to a Northern Editor by William Faulkner.

We'll try to have a live chat via Moodle on these documents and discuss my comments on the summaries you sent me yesterday. I am sending you more detailed instructions by mail.

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	M1 — US Art and Culture in the 1930s
	The 1930s in the United States cannot be simply reduced to the New Deal, although its politics /policies-- and particularly its cultural policies defined it to a great extent. This course aims at charting the period from the Wall Street Crash in 1929 to the beginning of the war in Europe (the US only became a belligerent per se in 1941). This class has an usual format: it will be taught as a joint seminar with American studies students from the University of Wyoming. Our weekly session will be divided in two parts: a common visioconference with Wyoming and then a in-class session in Lyon. As this is a Master's seminar, you will be asked to do weekly readings. Every week, documents will be posted on Moodle and students will be expected to be able to present and discuss the readings. I will then wrap up the session by synthesizing the discussions and offering a comprehensive perspective on the topic. Examen Final exam (4h) : a commentary of a primary source or an essay question on the period. Syllabus (adjusted as we'll ago along) Jan 30: What were the Fifties? A general introduction Feb 6: End of the introduction. Discussion of the following documents : 1) Irving Howe, "The Age of Conformity" (1954); 2) "The Paradox of Change," excerpt from W. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey, OUP, 1986. Feb 13: The Cold War as defining factor. Discussion of the following documents : 1) Guy Oakes, The Cold War Conception of Nuclear Reality: Mobilizing the American Imagination for Nuclear War in the 1950's, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 1993; 2) Greg Barnhisel, Cold Warriors of the Book: American Book Programs in the 1950s," Book History 13 (2010) Feb 20: McCarthyism and the great witch hunt. Discussion of the following documents : 1) "Conservative Battles for Public Education," 2) "Religion, Culture, and the Cold War," and 3) Joseph McCarthy on Communism. Feb 27: Follow up on McCarthyism and the great witch hunt. Beginning of "The great Civil Rights battles." Discussion of the following documents : 1) General presentation. Another look at race in the fifities, from the bottom up : 2) "The Perils of the Back Seat: Date Rape,Race and Gender in 1950s America" ; 3) "Jim Crow, Civil Defense, and the Hydrogen Bomb: Race, Evacuation Planning, and the Geopolitics of Fear in 1950s Savannah, Georgia" March 5: winter break March 12: Special guest lecture by Dr. Ksenija Kondali, professor at the University of Sarajevo: "Equality Now: The African American Civil Rights Movement." March 19: Follow-up on "race in the 50s" : "The Perils of the Back Seat: Date Rape,Race and Gender in 1950s America". Looking at young women and young people : 2) A“Very Innocent Time”: Oral History Narratives, Nostalgia and Girls’Safety in the 1950s and 1960s; 3) The Subversive Nature of Girl Scouting in the 1950s. Primary and secondary sources on the Civil Rights Beginning of new syllabus. For March 26 : try to watch these films : Racism, School Desegregation Laws and the Civil Rights Movement in the United States (51mn film in Clinton, TN) Racism in America Small Town 1950s Case Study Documentary Film (30mn documentary on a town in PA) The Montgomery Bus Boycott (7mn) Desegregation in Corporate America (a fiction on the topic, with some serious sexist comments at the beginning. You may also read this very interesting Letter to a Northern Editor by William Faulkner. We'll try to have a live chat via Moodle on these documents and discuss my comments on the summaries you sent me yesterday. I am sending you more detailed instructions by mail.
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