Scare in policing the edges of american politics. Today, 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 and 1950s and work through what 1940s is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities , Political Action and the way , people are thinking about politics in america in the 1940s and 1950s. You had three readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology and which share a set of assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. Today abouthinking 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 discussing 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 very few questions about this one. Yeah . So is he essentially saying that like the politi
The constitution did not go beyond. So about these suits, generally, just broadly, and then were going to look at one in particular here. It is important to recognize everything was on the line here. Black plaintiffs directed these suits, okay . They planned these suits. William h. Williams was one of the most notorious slave owners. He owned the yellow house. It was sometimes called a slave pen. We looked at one case, the film we checked out the other day, and that one was similar in that george Millers Tavern was a slave. He is by the 17 and the single largest slaved jail on the city of washington and its called the yellow house. And james ash was taken there and held there and well see why in just a second in 1839. A few months later a man named solomon northrup was taken to the yellow house. He was the star of 12 years a slave. And solomon who was kidnapped and taken to be sold to louisiana and to the southeast, can he was taken to the yellow house after he was kidnapped, and he wr
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
With dred scott, d. John sandford and you all read chief Justice Roger tawnys opinion in dred scotts case. And you have read that opinion, and its notorious in American History, right . For the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. And so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right . It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. And its often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History. To go to the Supreme Court. The only, almost uniformly, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. All of them challenging the notion of slave
With dread scott, d. John sandford and you all read chief Justice Roger tawnys opinion in dred scotts case. And you have read that opinion, and its notorious in American History, right . For the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. And so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right . It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. And its often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History. To go to the Supreme Court. The only, almost uniformly, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. All of them challenging the notion of slav