Lectures for Struggle for Civil Rights in America
Entries by Title
- 01.B: What The Course Is About
- 01.C: My Teaching Method
- 01.D: Course Rules
- 01.F: Printing Muiltiple-Slides Per Page -- Advice on How to Survive the Slide Onslaught
- 01.I: Understanding the Course Website -- Finding and Playing Lectures
- 02.A: Lecture Outline
- 02.C: Review
- 02.D: The Origins of Social Caste?
- 02.E: Castigation Through Patriarchy (Rome)
- 02.F. Clan-Driven Social Castes (Rome)
- 02.G: Gender in Rome
- 02.H: Rank-Order Castigation (Aristocracy and Feudalism)
- 03.A: Lecture Outline: The Great Ideals of the American Revolution
- 03.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 03.D: Getting Perspective: The American Revolution in Theory Versus Fact
- 03.E: The Midieval World and Its Ancient Political Order
- 03.F: The Great Ideals of the Enlightenment
- 03.G: The Enlightened Idealism of the American Revolution
- 03.H: Ending Social Deference in the New Republic
- 03.I: Meritocracy: The New Social Order in Post-Colonial America?
- 03.J: The Great Contradiction -- Liberty from Slaveholders?
- 04.A: Lecture Outline: Slavery in the American Republic
- 04.C(1): Your First Quiz
- 04.C(2): Understanding the Professor's Slide Technique: How to Take Good Notes
- 04.D: Review of Previous Lecture
- 04.E: Understanding Labor Relationships in Colonial America
- 04.F: How Slavery Emerged in Colonial America
- 04.G: The Transaction: Americans Buying and Selling Other Humans.
- 04.H: American Slavery -- Facts, Figures and Statistics.
- 05.A: Lecture Outline: What American Revolutionary Elites Thought About Slavery and Race
- 05.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 05.E: Attitudes About Race and Slavery in Post-Colonial America
- 05.F: Alexander Hamilton on Race and Slavery
- 05.G: Ben Franklin on Race and Slavery
- 05.H: John and Abigail Adams on Slavery and Race Discrimination
- 05.I: The Ugly Virginian: Thomas Jefferson, Slavery and Race
- 05.J: The Redemptive Virginian: George Washington, Slavery and Race
- 06.A: Lecture Outline: Race and Slavery From 1800 Through Antebellum America
- 06.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 06.D: Why Slavery Didn't Die Naturally in the 1800s
- 06.E: America's Second Bandaid: The Missouri Compromise
- 06.F: The Pro-Slavery Hegemony: Andrew Jackson and Race
- 06.G: Fugitives, Liberty & Comity: Understanding the Legal Issues That Create Dred Scot
- 06.H: The History of Dred Scot and the Ideology of the Decision
- 06.I: Democracy Begins to Fail: The Slavery Issue Explodes in the 1850s
- 07.A: Lecture Outline: The Outbreak of War and the Imposition of Legality as its Remedy
- 07.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 07.D: Lincoln and the Civil War (Quick Summary)
- 07.E: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
- 07.F: The Civil War Amendments
- 07.G: Majority Pathos: The Greatest Flaw In the American Exeriment?
- 07.H: The Economics of Slavery Versus Sharecropping
- 08.A: Lecture Outline: Reconstruction, Economics, Cruikshank & Plessy
- 08.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 08.D: Reconstruction: A New Political Order in the South.
- 08.F: The Politics of Law: The End of Reconstruction
- 08.G: America's First Anti-Discrimination Statute and The Civil Rights Cases of 1873
- 08.H: Law Without Police: The Lessons of Cruikshank
- 08.I: Separate But Equal: Plessy's History, the Creoles and Harlan's Dissent
- 09.A: Lecture Outline: The Attack Against Segregation and its Eventual Success in Brown
- 09.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 09.E: Cruikshank Revisited
- 09.F: The Ice Begins to Thaw: Race and Social Transformation in the 1900s
- 09.G: Organizing The Resistance: The NAACP, Howard Law School & Thurgood Marshall
- 09.H: Attacking Segregation: The NAACP Litigation Strategy
- 09.I: Victory at Last? -- Brown v. Board of Education
- 10.A: Lecture Outline: False Promises, Brown II, Civil Unrest & Another Monumental Act of Legality
- 10.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 10.D: The Fine Print: Brown II, Pragmatism & Double Talk
- 10.E: The Southern Resistance: Faubus, Little Rock, Manifestos & Hatred
- 10.F: Was Brown a Failure? -- Gerald Rosenberg and Alexander Hamilton
- 10.G: Peaceful and Determined Disobedience: The Civil Rights Movement
- 10.H: Victory at Last: The Passage of the Civil Rights Act
- 11.A: Lecture Outlline: What the Civil Rights Act Does
- 11.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 11.D: Passing the Civil Rights Act
- 11.E: The Virtues of Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 11.F: What the Civil Rights Act Does
- 11.G: Discrimination Lawsuits: Basic Features and How They Work
- 11.H: Statistical Discrimination: Fallacies in Reasoning With Aggregate Statistics
- 11.I: The Effect of Civil Rights Laws: Keeping Track of Employment Numbers
- 12.A: Lecture Outline: Affirmative Action, Bakke & Bill Cosby
- 12.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 12.D: The Effect of the Civil Rights Act (continued)
- 12.E: Policy Analysis: How Civil Rights Policy Change Happened Over Time
- 12.F: Affirmative Action: the Issues and Debate
- 12.G: The Bakke Case
- 12.H: The Controversy Surrounding Bill Cosby's Observations
- 13.A: Lecture Outline: Is Gender Special or is it Irrelevant?
- 13.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 13.D: Class Discussion: Are Men and Women Distinct or Basically the Same?
- 13.E: The Central Problem: Is Gender Special or Irrelevant?
- 14.A: Lecture Outline: Gender's Patriarchal Caste and the Call for Voting in the 1800s.
- 14.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 14.D: Conceptualizing Gender's Caste
- 14.E: The Basic Problem: Patriarchy
- 14.F: Patriarchal Castigation in Marriage
- 14.G: The Education of Women in the 1800s
- 14.H: The Call for Suffrage
- 14.I: Policy Analysis: Comparing the Struggles of Race and Gender
- 15.A: Lecture Outline: The Rise of Feminisim and the Transformation of Court and Culture
- 15.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 15.D: Legalizing the Patriarchal Caste:The Early Supreme Court
- 15.E: Shedding Essentialism and Patriarchy: The Modern Feminist Movement
- 15.F: Gender and the Supreme Court: The Modern Era
- 16.A: Lecture Outline: Women Athletes, Family Law & Gender Fairness
- 16.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 16.D: Policy Analysis: Theorizing How Gender Fairness Changed Over Time
- 16.E: Class Discussion: Women Athletics and Gender Fairness
- 16.F: Divorce Law and Gender Fairness [a (very) brief consideration]
- 17.A: Lecture Outline: Discrimination Against Asian Americans
- 17.C: Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go ...
- 17.D: Review of Previous Lecture
- 17.E: Asian Americans and Discrimination -- an Introduction
- 17.F: Korematzu and the World War II Japanese Internments
- 17.G: America the Melting Pot? An Interesting Parodox.
- 18.A: Lecture Outline: Discrimination Against Religion
- 18.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 18.D: Class Discussion: What is Religion and How to Conceptualize Discrimination
- 18.E: Toleration or Not? -- The History of Religon in America
- 18.F: The Supreme Court and Religious Discrimination in America
- 19.A: Lecture Outline: Sexual Orientation -- Science, Morality, Politics, Prejudice and Rights
- 19.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 19.D: Class Discussion: Gays, Science, Morality & Politics
- 19.E: The Gay Rights Struggle -- Some Preminary Thoughts
- 20.A: Lecture Outline: Sexual Orientation and the Court -- Sodomy, Marriage, Discrimination, & Constitutional Amendments
- 20.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 20.D: Gays, History, Sodomy & the Court
- 20.E: More Legal Issues -- Gay Marriage, the Court & Obstructing Future Generations
- 21.A: Lecture Outline: The Struggle of Labor Against Capital
- 21.C: Review of Previous Lecture
- 21.D: Colonial and Post-Colonial Labor Relationships
- 21.E: Industrialization and The Social Transformation of Labor in America in the 1800s
- 21.F: The History of Unions and Strikes
- 21.G: The President, the Court & Labor -- Yet Another Lesson in Cultural Transformation
