AIP 346 Reform or Revolution: Radical New York in the Early 20th Century (EP, UP)
What is the meaning of citizenship, and who should exercise it? What is economic justice, and how might it be achieved? What sorts of family and sexual relationships nurture and unleash human potential? This course explores how a diverse group of New York intellectuals engaged with such questions in the early twentieth century. These figures confronted a changing world: small-town America faced great cities and hitherto unimaginable contrasts of wealth and poverty. Ideas about American culture were challenged by an influx of immigrants and the claims of women and African-Americans to equal citizenship. Stable social roles were undermined by a new fascination with the Self, a unique identity that had to be discovered, nourished—even created. This course uses a game-based format called “Reacting to the Past” to immerse students in the ideological, artistic, and sociopolitical context in which these challenges played out. Core texts include works by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth, Karl Marx, Emma Goldman, Jane Addams, W.E. B. DuBois, and others.
Cross Listed Courses
Same as
PHR 346