Jim Crow USA: history and literature of and against racist segregation - Einzelansicht

This course will spotlight legal cases, historical documents such as political pamphlets and pseudo-scientific publications, and literature from the 1870s - 1950s of the USA. This era was dominated by the 'seperate but equal' doctrine that effectively resulted in legal and extralegal but tolerated discrimination and brutalization of Black people and other racialized minorities in the USA. We will discuss the construction of Whiteness, racist propaganda, the effects this had on the Black population as well as other minorities, and the different strategies by which people fought racism.

Students can choose whether to give a exploratory presentation and, at the end of the term, write a summary that accounts for the presentation's place in the course, or to submit a short paper.

essay: critical short essay (1000 words) + critical review (600 words) + annotated Bibliography (Testat or graded)

OR

15 min. in class presentation + re-evaluation of ca. 1000 words (Testat or graded)