Spring 2005 |
Prof. Watson
Jennison | Email: wwjennis@uncg.edu | Office: McIver 208 | Phone: 336-334-5488
Office Hours:
Mondays, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
HIS 520: The
New South, 1875 - 1925
Course Syllabus
This
course will consist of two papers worth 30%, participation in class discussions
worth 20%, and in class assignments worth 20%.
Graduate students will be assigned three papers worth 20% each with the
same requirements on participation and class assignments. The assigned books are Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition (1901), Grace E.
Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of
Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998), Eric Arnesen, ed, Black Protest and the Great Migration: A
Brief History with Documents (2003), and William Faulkner, Light in August (1932). You may purchase these books at the
university bookstore.
Attendance
and Late Policy: You are allowed three
excused absences. In addition, students
will be dropped from the class for excessive absences. Assignments that are not completed will
receive zeroes. Papers submitted in
class are due at the beginning of the class period. Students who submit papers after the deadline
will be penalized with a grade deduction based on the lateness of the
paper. No papers will be accepted one
week after the due date. If a student
leaves a paper in the professor’s mailbox, it is the student’s responsibility
to check that the professor has received the paper.
Plagiarism
Policy: The University defines
plagiarism as “intentionally or knowingly representing the words of another, as
one’s own in any academic exercise.”[1] All sources (books, articles,
documents, internet sites, etc.) used in any paper or assignment must be
properly cited or will be considered plagiarism. Any instance of plagiarism will receive a
zero and will be referred to the Office of Student Conduct for appropriate
action, including suspension or expulsion from the University.
Week 1:
01: Monday, January 10:
Introduction
02: Wednesday, January 12:
Reconstruction
§
Martha
Hodes, “The Sexualization of Reconstruction Politics: White Women and Black Men
in the South after the Civil War,” in American
Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War, pp. 59-74 on blackboard
Week 2:
03: Monday, January 17: MLK Day: No
Class
04: Wednesday, 19: Redemption
§
C.
Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South
(1951), pp. 1-106 on ereserves
Week 3:
05: Monday, January 24:
Sharecropping
§
Theodore Rosengarten, All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974), pp. 3-94 on ereserves
06: Wednesday, January 26:
Urbanization
§
Edward
Ayers, The Promise of the New South (1992),
pp. 55-80 on ereserves
Week 4:
07: Monday, January 31: Lynching,
Part I
§
Excerpts
from Ida B. Wells, Southern Horrors
(1892) on ereserves
08: Wednesday, February 2:
Lynching, Part II
§
Leon
Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black
Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998), pp. 284-328
on ereserves
Week 5:
09: Monday, February 7: Populism
§
Edward
Ayers, The Promise of the New South (1992),
pp. 214-282 on ereserves
10: Wednesday, February 9: The
Politics of Fusion
§
Edward
Ayers, The Promise of the New South (1992),
pp. 283-309 on ereserves
Week 6:
11: Monday, February 14: Riots,
Part I
§
Charles
W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
(1901), pp. 1-153
12: Wednesday, February 16: Riots,
Part II
§
Charles
W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition
(1901), pp. 154-329
Week 7:
13: Monday, February 21:
Segregation
§
Excerpts
from William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad, eds, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell
About Life in the Segregated South (2001), pp. TBA on ereserves
14: Wednesday, February 23:
Disfranchisement
§
Michael
Perman, Struggle for Mastery:
Disfranchisement in the South 1888-1908 (2001), pp. 1-37 on ereserves
Week 8:
15: Monday, February 28: South’s
Best Men
§
Excerpts
from W. E. B. DuBois, Souls of Black
Folks (1903), pp. TBA on blackboard
§
Booker
T. Washington, Atlantic Exposition Speech
(1895) on blackboard
16: Wednesday, March 2: South’s
Best Women
§
Glenda
Gilmore, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and
the Politics of White Supremacy in
Week 9:
17: Monday, March 7: Spring Break:
No Class
18: Wednesday, March 9: Spring
Break: No Class
Week 10:
19: Monday, March 14: Culture, Part
I
§
Grace
E. Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of
Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998), pp. xi-198
20: Wednesday, March 16: Culture,
Part II
§
Grace
E. Hale, Making Whiteness: The Culture of
Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (1998), pp. 199-296
Week 11:
21: Monday, March 21: Religion,
Part I
§
TBA
on ereserves
22: Wednesday, March 23: Religion,
Part II
§
TBA
on ereserves
Week 12:
23: Monday, March 28: Early
Industry and Labor, Part I
§
Edward
Ayers, The Promise of the New South (1992),
pp. 104-131 on ereserves
24: Wednesday, March 30: Early
Industry and Labor, Part II
§
Tera
Hunter, To ’Joy My Freedom (1997), pp. 74-97 on
ereserves
Week 13:
25: Monday, April 4: Southern
Imperialism, Part I
§
TBA
on ereserves
26: Wednesday, April 6: Southern Imperialism,
Part II
§
TBA
on ereserves
Week 14:
27: Monday, April 11: Eugenics,
Race, and Science, Part I
§
TBA
on ereserves
28: Wednesday, April 13: Race, and
Science, Part II
§
TBA
on ereserves
Week 15:
29: Monday, April 18: Rise of the
Second Ku Klux Klan
§
Nancy
McLean, “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the
Making of Reactionary Populism,” Journal
of American History vol. 78, no. 3 (1991), pp. 917-948 on jstor
30: Wednesday, April 20:
Reconciliation
No
Week 16:
31: Monday, April 25: Great
Migration
§
Excerpts
from Eric Arnesen, ed, Black Protest and
the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2003), pp. TBA
32: Wednesday, April 27: The New
Negro
§
Excerpts
from Eric Arnesen, ed, Black Protest and
the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents (2003), pp. TBA
Week 17:
33: Monday, May 2: Reading the
Southern Past
§
William
Faulkner, Light in August (1932)
Final
Papers Due on Friday, May 6