HIS142B The Problem of Color Line Paper Readings: Bob Dylan, Chronicle, Vol 1 David Hollinger, Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition, Vol I
HIS142B The Problem of Color Line Paper Readings:
Bob Dylan, Chronicle, Vol 1
David Hollinger, Charles Capper, The American Intellectual Tradition, Vol II, 1870-Present
Allen Ginsberg, Howl For Carl Solomon
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
Week One:
Ideas Matter: Introduction to the Discipline of Intellectual History.
Reading: Chomsky, “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” pp 501-509; [F.J. Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History, pp. 61-68; Frederick Douglass, https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/douglassjuly4.html ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self,” pp. 55-59.
Week Two
Man, God, and Science
Reading: Asa Grey, “Review of Origin of the Species,” pp. 6-12;
Briggs, “Selection From Biblical Study,” pp. 37-42;
William James, “The Will to Believe,” pp. 70-82;
Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements,” (126-131);
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Women & Economics,” pp 96-102.
Week Three:
Pragmatism
Reading: William James, “What Pragmatism Means,” pp. 161-171;
Woodrow Wilson, “The Ideals of America,” pp. 147-154;
Thorstein Veblen, Selection from “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” pp. 132-146;
John Dewey, “Philosophy and Democracy,” pp.208-216;
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Natural Law,” 204-207.
Week 4:
The Culture Concept
Reading: WEB Dubois, “From Souls of Black Folk,” pp. 155-160;
Margaret Mead, Selection From “Coming of Age in Samoa,” pp. 217-223;
Randolph Bourne, “Trans-National America,” pp. 177-187;
Walter Lippmann, “Selection From Drift and Mastery,” pp. 173-176.
only use the required readings as sources.
try to paraphrase as least as possible, quote the readings instead.
each essay should be 4 pages in length.
don’t forget to bold the thesis statement. HISTORY 142B
DR. COREY
SPRING 2019
TAKE-HOME MIDTERM QUESTIONS
READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. POINTS WILL BE
DEDUCTED FOR FAILURE TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS.
EXAMS ARE TO BE DOUBLE-SPACED AND TYPED. PLEASE USE 14
POINT TYPE AND STAPLE YOUR ANSWERS TOGETHER. MARK THEM
CLEARLY BY RESTATING THE QUESTION YOU ARE ANSWERING AT
THE TOP OF YOUR ESSAYS. EACH ESSAY MUST HAVE A
CONTROLLING THESIS THAT MUST BE PRINTED IN BOLD LETTERS
IN THE BODY OF YOUR TEXT. CITATIONS CAN BE DONE
PARENTHETICALLY EX: DUBOIS IN HOLLINGER, P.158). YOU
CAN ALSO CITE LECTURES IN THIS WAY: (COREY, LECTURE.)
YOU MUST TURN YOUR EXAM IN TO TURNITON.COM BEFORE
TURNING IT IN IN CLASS. IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU TURN
YOUR EXAM IN TO TURNITIN AS A SINGLE DOCUMENT. PLEASE
KEEP A COPY OF YOUR EXAM ON FILE. IF YOU WISH TO
DISCUSS THIS EXAM WITH ME AT ANY POINT, YOU WILL BE
RESPONSIBLE FOR BRINGING ME A COPY OF IT. EXAMS WILL BE
DUE AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON TUESDAY, MAY 7TH.
ANSWER TWO QUESTIONS. EACH QUESTION SHOULD BE 3-5
PAGES. THERE ARE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS ON THE EXAM
THAT OVERLAP. BE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO ANSWER TWO
QUESTIONS THAT DEAL WITH THE SAME THINKERS OR THE SAME
TOPIC. EACH QUESTION IS WORTH 50 POINTS.
1. WRITE AN ESSAY DETAILING BOTH THE SUBJECTIVE AND
OBJECTIVE ARGUMENTS FOR GENDER EQUALITY IN THE ESSAYS
BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN AND
JANE ADDAMS.
2. WOODROW WILSON AND MARGARET MEAD ARE BOTH REFLECTING
ON SO-CALLED PRIMITIVE CULTURES IN THE ESSAYS WE HAVE
READ. WRITE AN ESSAY IN WHICH YOU COMPARE AND CONTRAST
THE APPROACHES OF THESE TWO THINKERS TO THE PROBLEMATIC
OF THE “OTHER.”
3..W.E.B. DUBOIS ARGUED THAT “THE HISTORY OF THE
AMERICAN NEGRO” IS AT SOME LEVEL LARGELY CONCERNED WITH
THE POSSIBILITY THAT A “MAN [CAN] BE BOTH A NEGRO AND
AN AMERICAN, WITHOUT BEING CURSED AND SPIT UPON BY HIS
FELLOWS, WITHOUT HAVING THE DOORS OF OPPORTUNITY CLOSED
ROUGHLY IN HIS FACE.” WRITE AN ESSAY DISCUSSING DU
BOIS’ ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE COLOR LINE, PAYING
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO HIS INSISTENCE THAT RACE IS
SOMETHING THAT IS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED RATHER THAN
BIOLOGICALLY DETERMINED.
4. WHAT IS “PRAGMATISM”? HOW DOES A PRAGMATIST ASSESS
WHETHER A PHILOSOPHICAL PROPOSITION IS TRUE OR FALSE?
ON WHAT BASIS DID THE PRAGMATIST PHILOSOPHERS SUCH AS,
WILLIAM JAMES, W.E.B. DUBOIS OR JOHN DEWEY CLAIM THAT
THE PRAGMATIC METHOD FOR DETERMINING TRUTH WAS A NEW
AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO PHILOSOPHY?
5. WILLIAM JAMES SUGGESTS THAT OUR ASSESSMENT OF
WHETHER AN ARGUMENT IS LOGICAL DEPENDS ON WHETHER OR
NOT WE WANT TO BELIEVE IT. APPLYING THIS ARGUMENT TO
HIS OWN PHILOSOPHY, WHY DOES HE SEE IT AS SO PROFOUNDLY
IMPORTANT TO DEFEND RELIGIOUS FAITH AS A VIABLE
PHILOSOPHICAL OPTION AGAINST THE SCIENTIFIC AND
AGNOSTIC CRITIQUES OF RELIGION IN THE LATE 19TH
CENTURY?
6.WRITE AN ESSAY ILLUMINATING THE IMPACT OF DARWINIAN
SCIENCE ON AT LEAST THREE OF THE INTELLECTUALS WE HAVE
STUDIED.
7.WHAT DOES JANE ADDAMS MEAN BY THE “SUBJECTIVE
NECESSITY OF SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS”? HOW DOES THIS CONCEPT
LINK ADDAMS’ SENSE OF THE EMPTINESS OF MIDDLE CLASS
WOMEN’S LIVES WITH HER ADVOCACY FOR SOCIAL REFORM TO
IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE IMMIGRANT POOR? AND WHAT THEN IS
THE “OBJECTIVE NECESSITY OF SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS?”
8. WHO ARE THE MODERNS AND WHAT IS MODERN ABOUT THEM?
WRITE AN ESSAY IN WHICH YOU COMPARE THE WORLD VIEW OF
THE MODERNS TO THAT OF THEIR VICTORIAN FOREBEARS.
9. WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT THE CHANGING PARADIGM
CONCERNING RACE IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY. BE
SURE TO CONSIDER THE WRITINGS OF DUBOIS, WOODROW
WILSON, MARGARET MEAD AND RANDOLPH BOURNE IN YOUR
ARGUMENT.
10. WRITE AN IMAGINARY DEBATE BETWEEN WOODROW WILSON
AND RANDOLPH BOURNE (IN SCRIPT FORMAT) BASED ON THE
READINGS IN YOUR TEXT.
11. A NUMBER OF THE THINKERS WE HAVE STUDIED THUS FAR
HAVE CONCERNED THEMSELVES (OFTEN IN VERY DIFFERENT
WAYS) WITH THE CONCEPTS OF BARBARIANISM AND
CIVILIZATION. DISCUSS USING THE WORK OF THREE
INTELLECTUALS WE HAVE STUDIED.
12. WRITE AN ESSAY DESCRIBING THE VICTORIAN CRISIS OF
FAITH. BE SURE TO INCORPORATE SPECIFIC IDEAS FROM THE
READINGS IN YOUR NARRATIVE.
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