STS.080
Youth Political Participation
Spring 2016
Topics
- Defining our terms: What is youth? What is political participation? Why study these phenomena in historical perspective? Why study the role of technology and media in these events?
- Youth Political Participation before 1900
- Youth Political Participation 1900–1930
- Youth Political Participation in the 1930s
- Test 1
- Youth Political Participation 1940–1960
- Youth Political Participation in the “Long” 1960s
- Students will visit the MIT Museum ; discuss the history of political participation of MIT students, with reference to technology, media, and political hacks; and the origins of the Independent Activities Period (IAP) .
- Youth Political Participation 1970–1990
- Youth Political Participation since 1990
- To be decided by students in consultation with instructor. Options include continuing readings and discussion about the contemporary scene, take a field trip, or do something else.
Readings
- Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. “Introduction.” Chapters 1 and 4 in Kids on Strike! HMH Books for Young Readers, 2003. ISBN: 9780618369232.
- Nasaw, David. “Preface.” Chapters 5 and 12 in Children of the City: At Work and at Play . Anchor, 2012. ISBN: 9780345802972.
- Wolters, Raymond. “Conclusion.” Chapters 1 and 3 in The New Negro on Campus: Black College Rebellions of the 1920s . Princeton University Press, 1975. ISBN: 9780691046280.
- Fass, Paula S. “Introduction.” Chapters 1 and 8 in The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s . Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195024920.
- ———. “Skim.” Chapters 3 and 5 in The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s . Oxford University Press, 1979. ISBN: 9780195024920.
- Cohen, Ronald D., and Raymond A. Mohl. The Paradox of Progressive Education: The Gary Plan and Urban Schooling . Associated Faculty Press Incorporation, 1979, pp. 35–66 and 193–9. ISBN: 9780804692373.
- Schweinitz, Rebecca de. “Introduction.” Chapter 4 in If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality . The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780807872154.
- Haas, Britt. As They Saw the Thirties: Activist Youth’s Vision Of and For America. Dissertation: State University of New York at Albany , 2011.
- 6 · Youth Political Participation 1940–1960
- Shreve, Bradley G. “Introduction.” Chapters 2 and 3 in Red Power Rising: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism. Vol. 5 . University of Oklahoma Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780806141787.
- de Schweinitz, Rebecca. Chapter 5 in If We Could Change the World: Young People and America’s Long Struggle for Racial Equality . The University of North Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780807872154.
- Alvarez, Luis. Chapters 1 and 4–6 in The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II . University of California Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780520261549.
- McMillian, John. “Introduction.” Chapters 1 and 4 in Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America . Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780195319927.
- Boyle, Deirdre. “Introduction.” Chapters 3, 7, and 12 in Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited . Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780195110548.
- Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Chapter 3 in Groove Tube: Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion . Duke University Press Books, 2001. ISBN: 9780822326458.
- 9 · Youth Political Participation 1970–1990
- Vellela, Tony. Chapters 1–3, 9–10, and 12. New Voices: Student Political Activism in the ’80s and ’90s . South End Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780896083417.
- Piepmeier, Alison. “Introduction.” Chapters 1 and 5 in Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism . NYU Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780814767528.
- 10 · Youth Political Participation since 1990
- Allen, Danielle, and Jennifer S. Light, eds. Chapters 3 and 4 in From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age . University of Chicago Press, 2015. ISBN: 9780226262260.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.