Monday, June 14, 2021

Kulturraumstudien USA, Homework for June 21st

For homework, please read pp. 634-640 of These Truths and answer the following questions: 

1. What inspired the American Indian Movement and the Chicano movement? 

2. What were Fulbright and Chomsky's attitudes about academia's complicity during the US war in Vietnam? 

3. What was the political climate at US universities like in the late 1960s/early 1970s?

4. On pp. 637-638, there is talk of the 47-year-old Catholic housewife from Dayton, Ohio. What profile does the "average" voter in 2021 have? 

5. What was Nixon's strategy with the Family Assistance Plan?

6. How did Nixon's tapes "alter how Americans understood the presidency"?

7. What were the Pentagon Papers?

The slides from June 14th are posted on Ilias under the title "Post WWII and the Civil Rights Movement". 

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