Class 10
– What is meant by the culture of production/character versus the culture of consumption/celebrity/personality?
– During which time period did American culture transition from the culture of production/character to the culture of consumption/celebrity/personality?
– What were some of the factors that led to this change?
– Why were the early 1920s considered a period of anxiety and lawlessness? (Hint: what happened in WW I that led to this feeling?)
– What is meant by the concept of mass production? How did that coincide with changing notions of time and space?

Class 11
– How did Jack Johnson and his 1910 heavyweight championship fight against Jim Jeffries blur line between broader American cultural beliefs and popular culture?
– How did Jack Johnson violate American cultural beliefs outside of his boxing?
– How did ethnically distinct baseball players like Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg eventually become a
Americans?
– How did Jackie Robinson’s entry into major league baseball fit into broader American trends in 1947? In other words, what was happening in America at the time that allowed this to happen more easily in baseball?
– What are some examples of athletes using the popularity of their sporting events as an opportunity to make a political or social statement?

Class 12
– What was “radical” about “Radical Reconstruction”
– What was the outcome of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling?
– What is meant by the concept of “twoness,” as defined by W.E.B. DuBois?
– What did Marcus Garvey hope to achieve through his UNIA?
– What was meant by the Great Migration after World War I?
– What was the Harlem Renaissance?
– What are meant by Legal, Grass Roots, and Direct Action Activism?
– What was important about the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling?
– Please understand the significance of civil rights events from 1955-1965, including Rosa Parks, Sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, and the Selma Bloody Sunday March.
– What was meant by the American Dilemma in 1944?

Class 13
– What did the Immigration Reform of 1965 change about American immigration policy?
– Which was the first ethnic/immigrant group to be legally excluded by a US law?
– What is meant by transnational immigration and circular migration?
– What do immigrants of African descent (from Africa or the Caribbean, for example) experience in terms of social mobility in America? How is this different from other ethnic groups? What is a strategy for overcoming this issue?

Class 14
– In which decades in the 20th century did the modern beliefs promoted by Republican and Democratic politicians develop? Why?
– How did these transitions change the Democratic and Republican parties? What were these parties associated with in the 1800s?
– Explain the significance of political ads such as “Daisy,” “Morning in America,” or “The Man From Hope.”
– What was meant by the concept of “consensus” in the 1950s and why was it an important public policy for that time?

Class 10
– What is meant by the culture of production/character versus the culture of consumption/celebrity/personality?
– During which time period did American culture transition from the culture of production/character to the culture of consumption/celebrity/personality?
– What were some of the factors that led to this change?
– Why were the early 1920s considered a period of anxiety and lawlessness? (Hint: what happened in WW I that led to this feeling?)
– What is meant by the concept of mass production? How did that coincide with changing notions of time and space?

Class 11
– How did Jack Johnson and his 1910 heavyweight championship fight against Jim Jeffries blur line between broader American cultural beliefs and popular culture?
– How did Jack Johnson violate American cultural beliefs outside of his boxing?
– How did ethnically distinct baseball players like Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg eventually become a
Americans?
– How did Jackie Robinson’s entry into major league baseball fit into broader American trends in 1947? In other words, what was happening in America at the time that allowed this to happen more easily in baseball?
– What are some examples of athletes using the popularity of their sporting events as an opportunity to make a political or social statement?

Class 12
– What was “radical” about “Radical Reconstruction”
– What was the outcome of the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court ruling?
– What is meant by the concept of “twoness,” as defined by W.E.B. DuBois?
– What did Marcus Garvey hope to achieve through his UNIA?
– What was meant by the Great Migration after World War I?
– What was the Harlem Renaissance?
– What are meant by Legal, Grass Roots, and Direct Action Activism?
– What was important about the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling?
– Please understand the significance of civil rights events from 1955-1965, including Rosa Parks, Sit-ins, the Freedom Riders, and the Selma Bloody Sunday March.
– What was meant by the American Dilemma in 1944?

Class 13
– What did the Immigration Reform of 1965 change about American immigration policy?
– Which was the first ethnic/immigrant group to be legally excluded by a US law?
– What is meant by transnational immigration and circular migration?
– What do immigrants of African descent (from Africa or the Caribbean, for example) experience in terms of social mobility in America? How is this different from other ethnic groups? What is a strategy for overcoming this issue?

Class 14
– In which decades in the 20th century did the modern beliefs promoted by Republican and Democratic politicians develop? Why?
– How did these transitions change the Democratic and Republican parties? What were these parties associated with in the 1800s?
– Explain the significance of political ads such as “Daisy,” “Morning in America,” or “The Man From Hope.”
– What was meant by the concept of “consensus” in the 1950s and why was it an important public policy for that time?