American history. I thought i would start by spending five or ten minutes just talking about the book. Partly its genesis and partly the kinds of questions that arose, which for me, gave the book a kind of larger scope than i had originally intended. The quotations that are in the book, the slogans and catchphrases, up until 1955 were easy for me to remember because i am a child of the forties. That is what i learned in school. That is how we learned history in school. Either the books that we took out of the library in fourth or fifth grade, or the way history was taught. But when i got to graduate school in the sixties, i discovered that some of my fellow students who came from overseas would come to meet periodically, as one woman did, and said, who is this joe and why should he say it aint so . So i told her the story. And then, much much later, a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said, why do my patience, when they see me, say whats up doc
Across the bay have been making jokes about oakland. There is no there there, as opposed to a stay. The jokes may live on, but oakland is no longer the faces other city across today. Now, californias fourth largest city is a booming center of commerce, art, industry and culture. We but oakland new glamour and prosperity are not shared equally by all of its citizens. Nearly half of the citys population is non white and many are poor. They do not patronize the symphony or the museums. They do not use to coliseum what the airport very much, nor do they hold their share of the jobs created by oaklands new industries, port and transportation facilities. Most of oaklands black and brown citizens came in from the south during world war ii, lured by recruiters for government and private industry to work in shipyards and defense plants. After the war, the shipyards closed, and many factories move to the suburbs, leaving most nonwhite workers behind. Technology put more workers on the unemployme
Feeds. Cspan, created by americas Cable Service companies. Brought you today by your television provider. Modern university is the cradle of the nations future. music today, it not only preserves but transmits knowledge and values, it serves modern more as the center of research and innovation. It has been called the chief energizing and Creative Force in our entire social system. music the modern university is the cradle of the nations the university, now has become a means of production. Whereby one guy does a little bit, for the cia, it and this university is now a production for using that mechanisms of human oppression. 50 of the Research Done at this university was to collect money. We can see when we look at the buildings going, up there is an engineering building, a Business School a law school and a school of international relations, and we can tell how much this university is into servicing the corporation, and servicing the war machine. It is a directive for lockheed hair cr
The modern university is the cradle of the nations future. This be so, let us not underestimate the task we face. Meanwhile, the explosive growth still increases the demands upon us, the under developed peoples look to us for training and guidance and our own governments, local governments, state governments, national governments, look increasingly to the universities for expert counsel and staff of higher responsibility. However much personality with the Administration May have exacerbated the situation. The situation would have been there no matter who was president for the university. Right. So he came out with his thing that hes going to recommend every month or week each dean set aside some time to talk to students who dont have which makes the liberal assumption what we have here is a failure of communication. That isnt so because its an analysis of an entire system of the functioning of a corporate entity that is in question. The students understand very, very well what the ruli
Involvement in the market. All right. The last couple of classes we have been talking about the red scare and the impact of the red scare in policing the edges of american politics. We will be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1930s and 1950s and work through what is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 1930s. Have had different readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology and which share assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. Will be thinking about how they kind of framed those ideas and this is a transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into sort of what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. Shall we start with daniel bell, everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there are