Course Syllabus
This course surveys American political thought from Reconstruction to the present. Topics and authors include the crisis of post-bellum America (Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass), Social Darwinism and progressive reform (William Graham Sumner and Jane Addams), the problem of the color-line (Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois), anarchism and socialism (Emma Goldman and Eugene Debs), New Deal liberalism (Franklin Roosevelt and John Dewey), the black freedom movement (Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin), and the politics of difference (Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde).