Paper Topics
Core 191
Scarboro Fall 2010
What follows is a list of potential paper topics each linked to specific sections of the course and a set of primary sources connected to the topic. This list is not exclusive and if you would like to write on a topic not listed please come see me and we can discuss other possibilities. Please remember that you will need to use at least five primary and five secondary sources in your paper.
New Ways of Knowing
Chapters 1 and 2 from the Chapters 1 and 2 from the Book of Genesis <<http://bible.oremus.org/?ql=148011116>>
Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species, (selections) <<http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/darwin.html>>
Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” 1893 <<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/>>
W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, (excerpts) <<http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html>>
Orientalism and the Question of Representation
Said, “Knowing the Oriental” from Orientalism, 1979 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” 1893 <<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/>>
W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, (excerpts) <<http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html>>
Westernization and its Discontents
1889 Japanese Constitution <<http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.html>>
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899 <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html>
William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 <<http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/>>
Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” 1893 <<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/>>
W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, (excerpts) <<http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html>>
Khrushchev, The Secret Speech to the 20th Party Convention (excerpts), 1956 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Chinese Posters <<Course Moodle site>>
Pop Art and Sots Art <<Course Moodle site>>
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Colonization and Africa
Said, “Knowing the Oriental” from Orientalism, 1979 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899 <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html>>
Amíclar Cabral, National Liberation and Culture, 1970 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Bill Berkeley¸ Zaire: An African Horror Story, 1993 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Creating "Americanness"
Said, “Knowing the Oriental” from Orientalism, 1979 <<Course Moodle Site>>
William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 <<http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/>>
Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” 1893 <<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/TURNER/>>
W.E.B. Dubois, Souls of Black Folk, (excerpts) <<http://www.bartleby.com/114/1.html>>
William J. Ganz Co., Journey to Banana land, 1950 << http://www.archive.org/details/18225Banana>>
Pop Art and Sots Art <<Course Moodle site>>
Bill Berkeley¸ Zaire: An African Horror Story, 1993 <<Course Moodle Site>>
World War I and the Logic of the Nation State
World War I Poetry << http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html>>
Atatürk, Speech on the 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey, 1933 <<http://www.theturkishtimes.com/archive/02/11_01/f_speech.html>>
Mussolini, What is Fascism? 1932 << http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html>>
Bauer, Trust not a fox on his Green Heath, 1936 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Jaegermann, Memories of My Childhood in the Holocaust, 1985 <<http://remember.org/witness/jagermann.html>> and
The Jager Report,
1941 <<
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/Resource/document/DocJager.htm>>
Russian Revolution and the Question of Communism
Lenin, State and Revolution, 1918 (excerpts) <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/lenin-staterev.html>>
Stalin, Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions with the Collective Farm Movement, <<http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/dizzy.html>>
Khrushchev, The Secret Speech to the 20th Party Convention (excerpts), 1956 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Chinese Posters <<Course Moodle Site>>
William J. Ganz Co., Journey to Banana land, 1950 << http://www.archive.org/details/18225Banana>>
Pop Art and Sots Art <<Course Moodle site>>
Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart [the Harvard Commencement Speech], 1978 << http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html>>
A. Kuznetsov, Not All Theaters are Erotic, 1990 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Fukuyama, “The End of History?” From the National Interest, 1989 << http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm>>
Interwar Cultural Crisis
World War I Poetry << http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1914warpoets.html>>
Tzara, Dada Manifesto,
1921 <<http://www.ralphmag.org/AR/dada.html>>
Mussolini, What is Fascism? 1932 << http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html>>
Bauer, Trust not a fox on his Green Heath, 1936 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Cold War and Culture
Lenin, State and Revolution, 1918 (excerpts) <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/lenin-staterev.html>>
Stalin, Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions with the Collective Farm Movement, <<http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/dizzy.html>>
Khrushchev, The Secret Speech to the 20th Party Convention (excerpts), 1956 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Chinese Posters <<Course Moodle Site>>
William J. Ganz Co., Journey to Banana land, 1950 << http://www.archive.org/details/18225Banana>>
Pop Art and Sots Art <<Course Moodle Site>>
Paris Graffiti and Posters <<Course Moodle site>>
Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart [the Harvard Commencement Speech], 1978 << http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html>>
A. Kuznetsov, Not All Theaters are Erotic, 1990 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Fukuyama, “The End of History?” From the National Interest, 1989 << http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm>>
Cold War and the "Third World"
William J. Ganz Co., Journey to Banana land, 1950 << http://www.archive.org/details/18225Banana>>
Amíclar Cabral, National Liberation and Culture, 1970 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers
Bill Berkeley¸ Zaire: An African Horror Story, 1993 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Colonialism and Violence
Said, “Knowing the Oriental” from Orientalism, 1979 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899 <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html>>
Amíclar Cabral, National Liberation and Culture, 1970 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Bill Berkeley¸ Zaire: An African Horror Story, 1993 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Decolonialism and the Nation-State
Rudyard Kipling, The White Man’s Burden, 1899 <<http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html>>
Amíclar Cabral, National Liberation and Culture, 1970 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Pontecorvo, Battle of Algiers
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Bill Berkeley¸ Zaire: An African Horror Story, 1993 <<Course Moodle Site>>
Modernity and Counterculture
Pop Art and Sots Art <<Course Moodle Site>>
Bob Marley Lyrics and Disc
Paris Graffiti and Posters <<Course Moodle Site)
Solzhenitsyn, A World Split Apart [the Harvard Commencement Speech], 1978 << http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html>>
Iranian Revolution and Political Islam
Naipaul, Among the Believers, 1981
Osama bin Laden, Jihad against Jews and Crusaders, 1998 <<http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm>>