Civil Rights Movements Questions

 

 

Prompt Questions/Two Essays For the writing assignment, you can respond to as few/many prompt questions as you like, so long as you have written 800-1000 words by the end of Week 5 and a combined 1750-2000 words by the end of the quarter. Write in Times New Roman font size 12, double-spaced with 1” margins. If you prefer to write a family history project or someone else pertaining to immigration, race/ethnicity, please seek permission from me no later than Friday, October 7. The first paper is due Friday, April 29, 11:59pm. Second papers are due Friday, June 3, 11:59pm.

Week Five: April 27: Civil Rights as Genesis of Other Movements

• Judith Rollins. 1986. “Part of a Whole: The Interdependence of the Civil Rights Movement and Other Social Movements.” Phylon 47.1: 61-70
• Crystal Fleming and Aldon Morris. 2015. “Theorizing Ethnic and Racial Movements in the Global Age: Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1.1: 105-126.
• Anna Diamond. 2018. “Remembering Resurrection City and the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968.” Smithsonian Magazine, May. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remembering… • First Paper Due, Saturday, April 30, 11:59pm
• Prompt: How did the Civil Rights Movement influence other social movements? Please explain.

 

Week Six: May 4: Launching Other Movements

• José Ángel Gutierrez. 2010. “The Chicano Movement: Paths to Power.” Social Studies 102.1: 25-32
• Adalberto Aguirre Jr. and Shoon Lio. 2008. “Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice.” Social Justice 35.2: 1-17
• Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar. 2006. “Puerto Rico en mi Corazón: The Young Lords, Black Power, and Puerto Rican Nationalism in the U.S., 1966-1972.” Centro Journal 18.1: 149-169
• Prompt: What were the connections between the Civil Rights/Black Power movement and Chicano, Asian-American, and/or Puerto Rican movements? Where did these movements deviate from the Civil Rights/Black Power movements

Week Seven: May 11: Feminism’s Second Wave?

• Jo Freeman. 1973. “The Origins of the Women’s Liberation Movement.” American Journal of Sociology 78.4: 792-811
• Combahee River Collective. 2020 (1977). “A Black Feminist Statement.” Eds. Dan Berger and Emily Hobson. Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, pp. 27-30
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. 2020. “Until Black Women are Free, None of Us Will Be Free: Barbara Smith and the Black Feminist Visionaries of the Combahee River Collective.” New Yorker, July 20. https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/unti… • Alma Garcia. 1989. “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse 1970-1980.” Gender & Society 3.2: 217-238
• Prompt: How did feminism respond to the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s? How did feminism shift in multiple directions and what did separate feminisms respond to?

Week Eight: May 18: Structures and Obstacles

• Aldon Morris. 1981. “Black Southern Student Sit-in Movement: An Analysis of Internal Organization.” American Sociological Review 46.6: 744-767

• Davyd Setter. 2021. “Changes in Support for U.S. Black Movements, 1966-2016: From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter.” Mobilization: An International Quarterly 26.4: 475-488

• Pamela Oliver. 2019. “Resisting Repression: The Black Lives Movement in Context.” Eds. Pamela Oliver and Hank Johnston. Racialized Protest and the State: Resistance and Repression in a Divided America. New York NY: Routledge, pp. 63-88
• Prompt: What were the structures that enabled the movements, and what were the obstacles that limited them?

 

Week Nine: May 25: Environmental Justice

• Robert Bullard and Glenn Johnson. 2000. “Environmental Justice: Grassroots Activism and Its Impact on Public Policy Decision Making.” Journal of Social Issues 56.3: 555-578
• Laura Pulido and Devon Peña. 1998. “Environmentalism and Positionality: The Early Pesticide Campaign of the United Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee, 1965-71.” Race, Gender & Class 6.1: 33-50 • Eric Mann. 2020 (1996). “A New Vision for Urban Transportation.” Eds. Dan Berger and Emily Hobson. Remaking Radicalism: A Grassroots Documentary Reader of the United States, 1973–2001. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, pp. 227-229

• Prompt: How has the civil rights movement’s legacy influenced the environmental justice movement? What separates environmental justice from the “environmental movement?”

 

Week Ten: June 1: Black Lives Matter and Beyond

• Andrew Chow. 2021. “How the Black Panther Party Inspired a new Generation of Activists.” Time, February 12. https://time.com/5938058/black-panthers-activism/
• Aleshia Faust et al. 2020. “Black Lives Matter and the Movement for Black Lives.” Charles Tilly, Ernesto Castañeda, and Leslie Wood, Eds. Social Movements, 1768-2018, Chapter 13.
• Carly Miller et al. 2020. “Mass Incarceration and Prisoner Rights.” Charles Tilly, Ernesto Castañeda, and Leslie Wood, Eds. Social Movements, 1768-2018, Chapter 14
  • Prompt: How does the Black Lives Matter movement carry on the tradition of resistance to the carceral state, and in which ways does it deviate?