Il corso affronta diversi aspetti di natura storica e sociale che caratterizzano la cultura degli Stati Uniti d'America.
Il programma prevede la discussione dei seguenti aspetti caratterizzanti la cultura americana attraverso lo studio dei seguenti testi e prodotti culturali:
1. American territory and US history, from the discovery to the frontier:
-William Bradford, ?Surviving the First Winter of the Plymouth Colony? (1620-1621).
-John O?Sullivan, ?Annexation? (1845) - https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/annexation/
-Frederick Jackson Turner, "The significance of the Frontier in American History" (1897) https://www.historians.org/resource/the-significance-of-the-frontier-in-american-history/
2. The American Identity:
John Winthrop, ?A Modell of Christian Charity? (1630):
Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776);
J. Hector de Crevecoeur - ?What is an American??, in Letters from an American Farmer (1782);
-James Monroe, ?Seventh State of the Union Address? (1823);
Theodore Roosevelt ? the Roosevelt Corollary: ?1904 State of the Union Address?;
- Harry Truman ? The Truman Doctrine.
3. The Blacks, from slavery to segregation, and beyond:
-Frederick Douglass, ?The Color-Line? (1881);
-W.E.B. Du Bois, ?Of Our Spiritual Strivings?, in The Souls of the Black Folk (1903);
-Langston Hughes, ?I, Too, Sing America? (1926), and ?The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain? (1926);
- Martin Luther King, ?I have A Dream? (1963).
4. Migration in the US:
-John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), ?Chapter 1?;
-Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor?s Tale (1980-1991);
-Gloria Anzaldua, Borderland/La Frontera, ?The Homeland, Aztlan? (1987).
5. Women in the US:
-Lydia Maria Child, ?Letter XXXIV? from Letters from New York (1843);
-Seneca Falls Convention, ?Declaration of Sentiments? (1848);
Kate Chopin - ?The story of an Hour? (1894).
6.The US Political system.
7. Economy and Finance in the US.
8. The US Foreign Policy.
Bibliografia:
-Hasia R. Diner, ?The Americanization of the Holocaust?, in The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025, pp. 285-306.
-Matteo Pretelli, ?La grande ondata?, in L?emigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti. Bologna: il Mulino, 2011, pp. 56-105.
-Erminio Corti, ?Chicanos, Mexican-Americans, Hispanics: una questione d?identita. Acoma 11, 1997, pp. 85-92.
-Moreno Bertoldi, ?Struttura e limiti del welfare americano?, Stato e mercato 76, 2006, pp. 55-90.
-Morgan Housel, ?Postscript: A Brief History of Why the US Consumer Thinks the Way they Do?, in The Psychology of Money. New York: Harriman House, 2020.
-Mario Del Pero, "Guerra fredda" e "Ascesa e (temporaneo) declino dell?impero americano?, in Liberta e impero pp. 277-312 e 313-353. Bari: Laterza, 2017.
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