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Political Economy and Social Change: From Colonization to Globalization
Fall Schedule
CURRENT WEEK (prior weeks below)
*** EVALUATIONS: 12 – 16 December
Winter quarter, first week reading:
Zinn, ch 21 - end
McCormick, ch 7 to end
Week I
26 September – 30 September
Introduction to Political Economy and Social Change
Reading: Luis Rodriguez, Music of the Mill.
Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the US, Afterword (pp 683-88)
TUESDAY AM: Introduction to the Program: Larry, Tony, Jeanne
TUESDAY PM: Seminar introduction and organization
WEDNESDAY: Workshop: Objectivity, Information, and Balance
Video: “You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train”
FRIDAY AM:Rodriguez
FRIDAY PM:Lecture: Larry, “Power, Ideology, and Objectivity”
Week II
3 – 7 October
Historical Objections to Objectivity: Before America and Liberalism
Reading: Howard Zinn, Chs 1-3
E. K. Hunt, Property and Profits, Forward, Preface, & chs 1-4
Karen Ordahl Kupperman, “International at the Creation: Early American History” (on closed reserve)
Richard Drinnon, Facing West: The Metaphysics of Indian-Hating & Empire-Building, Preface, Introduction, & Part I (chs I-V)
Samir Amin, “15th Century AD” (click here)
C.B. Macpherson, “Editor’s Introduction to Locke’s Second Treatise of Government (handout)
John Locke, “On Property” from the Second Treatise (handout)
TUESDAY AM:Lecture: Larry, “Liberalism and Classical Liberalism”
TUESDAY PM:Hunt, Amin, Drinnon
WEDNESDAY: Individual student conferences with seminar leaders
FRIDAY AM: Macpherson and Locke
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Jeanne, “Slavery, Early Capitalism, and the Trans-Atlantic Diaspora”
Week III
10 – 14 October
The Struggle over the US Founding
Reading: Zinn, chs 4, 5, 6
Founding documents (see below)
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Jeanne, “Considerations on the US ‘Founding’”
TUESDAY PM: Declaration of Independence (click here) , Articles of Confederation (click here) , US Constitution (click here)
WEDNESDAY: Introduction to research projects: preliminary topic selection and group formation
12-1: Library workshop, Group I
FRIDAY AM: Federalist, Nos 10, 48, 5l, Dissent of the Pennsylvania Minority
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Jeanne, “Markets in Historical Perspective”
*** JOURNALS DUE IN SEMINAR ***
Week IV
17 – 21 October
Slavery and Abolition
Reading: Zinn, ch 9
Hunt, ch 5
Vincent Harding, There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America.
Proslavery documents (on closed reserve):
Edward Ruffin, “The Political Economy of Slavery”
State v. Mann, North Carolina Supreme Court
George Fitzhugh, “Sociology for the South” and “Cannibals, All!”
Thornton Stringfellow, “The Bible Argument”
The Plantation Books (click here)
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Tony, “The Rise of Modern Racism and the Uses of Race in Exploitation”
Film: “Ethnic Notions”
TUESDAY PM: Harding, Introduction and chs 1 – 7; Hunt; Proslavery documents and The Plantation Books
WEDNESDAY: Work in research teams and library to finalize Preliminary Statements;
Faculty available for consultation
10-11 Library workshop, Group II;
11-12, Group III
FRIDAY AM:Harding, chs 8 - end
FRIDAY PM:Lecture: Larry, “The Political Economy of Racism”
Film: “Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice”
*** PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS DUE IN LECTURE ***
Week V
24 – 28 October
The Conquest of the West
Reading:
Zinn, chs 7, 8
Richard Drinnon, Facing West, Parts II (chs VI-X), III (chs XI-XV), IV (chs XVI-XXII)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, “Property Values,” from The Legacy of Conquest (on closed reserve)
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Jeanne, “19th Century State Formation”
TUESDAY PM: Drinnon, Parts II & III
WEDNESDAY: Films: “Chief Seattle” and “Broken Rainbow”
FRIDAY AM: Drinnon and Limerick
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Larry, “Introduction to Class Analysis”
Week VI [This week's SCHEDULE HAS CHANGED, SEE BELOW]
31 October – 4 November
Marx and Class Analysis
Reading:
Zinn, ch. 10, 11, 12
Hunt, chs 6 & 7
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Ellen Meiksins Wood, “The Communist Manifesto after 150 Years,” (click here) Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Capital
Karl Marx, “Preface to a Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy” (click here)
TUESDAY AM: Video: “Marx and Marxism” Faculty Panel: Perspectives on Marxism
TUESDAY PM: The Communist Manifesto, Wood, Preface to a Contribution of Political Economy
*** FIRST SYNTHESIS PAPER DUE IN TUESDAY SEMINAR ***
WEDNESDAY: OPTIONAL Meetings with Research Faculty
FRIDAY 10-12:30: Workshop on Wage-Labour and Capital in ***Sem2 B1107***
FRIDAY 1-2:30 OPTIONAL Public Presentation by Luis Wilfredo Berrios Sem2 ***B1107***
FRIDAY 2:45-4PM Students seminar on Wage-Labour and Capital ***IN USUAL FRIDAY SEMINAR ROOMS***
Week VII
7 – 11 November
Global Crisis and the Great Depression
Reading:
Zinn, chs 13, 14, 15, 16
Hunt, chs 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Matthew Lyons, “What is Fascism?” (click here)
Chip Berlet, “Fascism, an Essay” (click here)
Mark Neocleous, Fascism, selections (on closed reserve)
Antonio Gramsci, “Fascism and its Policy” (click here)
Michael Bernstein, “Why the Great Depression was Great” (on closed reserve)
Alan Brinkley, “The New Deal and the Idea of the State” (on closed reserve)
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Jeanne, “Global Collapse, Depression, and State Response”
TUESDAY PM: Hunt, chs 8-11 and Lyons, Berlet, Neocleous, Gramsci
WEDNESDAY: Lecture: Tony, “Responses to Crisis: The Rise of Socialism and Fascism”
Guest: Luis Rodriguez
FRIDAY AM: Hunt, ch 12; Bernstein and Brinkley
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Larry, “Introduction to Imperialism”
Week VIII
14 – 18 November
Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race, Gender & Inequality
Reading:
Zinn, chs 17, 19, 20
Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit.
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Tony, “Urbanization, Race, and Inequality”
TUESDAY PM: Sugrue, Preface, Introduction and Parts I & II
WEDNESDAY: films: “Detroit: Ruin of a City” and “Finally Got the News”
FRIDAY AM: Sugrue, Part III & Appendix
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Larry, “Introduction to Modern Imperialism, continued”
*** SECOND SYNTHESIS ESSAY DUE IN SEMINAR ***
***** THANKSGIVING BREAK: 21 – 25 November *****
Week IX
28 November – 2 December
Immigration, Migration and Agriculture: Race, Gender, and Inequality
Reading:
Hunt, chs. 13 & 14
B. Krebs, The Corporate Reapers: the Book of Agribusiness, sections (on closed reserve)
Enchando Raices/ Taking Root, Section IV pp. 27-51 Discussion Guide (click here)
Jerry Garcia, “A Chicana in northern Aztlan: An oral history of Dora
Sanchez Trevino” (click here)
Barbara Ehrenreich, “What is Socialist Feminism?” (click here)
Barbara Epstein, “What Happened to the Women’s Movement?” (click here)
TUESDAY AM: Lecture: Tony, “Immigration, Migration, and Agribiz-nation”
Film: “Echando Raices/Taking Root”
TUESDAY PM: Hunt, Krebs, Discussion Guide, and Garcia
WEDNESDAY: Students work on Research Prospectus; Faculty available for consultation
FRIDAY AM: Ehrenreich and Epstein
FRIDAY PM: Lecture: Jeanne, “Reading McCormick and beyond: Hegemony, World-System Analysis, and Continuing Transformation”
*** RESEARCH PROSPECTUS DUE ***
Week X
5 – 9 December
Establishing the Post-war World
Reading:
Zinn, ch 18
Thomas McCormick, America’s Half Century: United States Foreign Policy in the Cold War and After. Forward, Preface, chs 1-6
Drinnon, Part V (chs XXIII - end)
Bruce Franklin, “The Antiwar Movement We Are Supposed to Forget” (click here)
TUESDAY AM:Lecture: Tony, “Coming to Terms with Evolving Relationships: Race/Class/Gender”
TUESDAY PM:McCormick, Forward, Preface and chs 1-3
WEDNESDAY: Film: “Hearts and Minds”
*** JOURNALS DUE TO SEMINAR LEADER ***
FRIDAY AM: McCormick, chs 3 through 6, Franklin, Drinnon
FRIDAY PM: End-of-quarter potluck and program assessment
Longhouse kitchen and Cedar Room
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