Lehrende/r: Univ. Prof. Dr. Winfried Herget
Veranstaltungsart: online: Vorlesung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: DIES IST DIE VORLESUNG UND NICHT DER CULTURAL STUDIES-KURS: SIE KÖNNEN NUR DIE VORLESUNG ODER DEN CULTURAL STUDIES-KURS BESUCHEN! Melden Sie sich in keinem Fall für beides an!
Inhalt: Ever since the U.S. was founded, those who did not seem to share the assumptions of a consensual republic/democracy have frequently been considered Un-American”. Examples from history include the “Alien and Sedition Acts” of the 1790s, xenophobic nativism of the of the mid-19th century. The “Red Scare” after WWI, the hearings of the Dies Committee in the 1930s, and McCarthyism in the 1950s. What were the reasons and strategies employed to declare some people “un-American”? Who had the power to do so, and what ideas of the meaning of “American” thus came to the fore? “Un-American” must be distinguished from “Anti-American,” as the lecture course hopes to show.
Zusätzliche Informationen: Active participation may require response papers.
Digitale Lehre: If necessary, classes will be on-line.
