FIRST WEEKEND - Friday, Jan. 9 and Saturday, Jan. 10
Introduction: SEEDING THE SIXTIES: THE FIFTIES
Audio: The Midnighters (1954)
I. Friday, January 9 - 7 PM - FILM: Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
II. Saturday, January 10 - 8:30 AM - WHERE WERE YOU IN '52? -
Politics and Fear in the Fifties
Halberstam, Chaps. 1, 3, 16, 17, 18, 23.
III. Saturday, January 10 - 10:30 AM - REBELS WITHOUT A HIGH -
Whites Seeking Black Freedom
Halberstam, Chaps. 13, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40.
Click to listen to Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl"
IV. Saturday, January 10 - 12:30 PM - REMOVING THE GUILT FROM HEDONISM -
The Consumer Culture
Halberstam, Chaps. 8, 9, 10, 11, 33, 35, 43.
Week 2 – Jan. 15 – “WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE” –
America at the Dawn of the Sixties
Film: Psycho (1960)
Link to Reviews
Reading: Continue discussion based on Week 1 Halberstam readings;
Halberstam, Ch. 41;
David Burner, Making Peace with the 60s, pp. 3-12;
Alexander Bloom & Wini Breines, Takin’ It to the Streets, pp.1-11.
Audio: Bob Dylan (1963)
Audio: The Rolling Stones (1965)
Week 3 – Jan. 22 – “AIN’T GONNA LET NOBODY TURN ME AROUND” – Blacks Seeking White Freedom
Audio: Bob Dylan (1962)
Documentary Films: Eyes on the Prize, Parts 4 & 5.
Reading: Halberstam, The Fifties, Chaps. 28, 29, 36, 44;
Burner, Making Peace, pp. 13-48;
B&B, Takin’ It to the Streets, pp. 13-18, 21-29, 43-48.
Click to hear speech
Audio: "We Shall Overcome"
Click here to listen to an interview with
Michael Eric Dyson about his book I May Not Get There With You:
The True Martin Luther King, Jr. Feb. 2, 2000
MUSIC: Little Stevie Wonder, "Fingertips, Part 2"