HIST 572

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Prob in US Hist Since 1815

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Credit: 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms as topics vary.

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HIST 572 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32421	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	Gregory Hall	Burgos, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: Topic: A Tale of Two Integrations. Description: Integration stands as one of the more profound chapters in the efforts to address racial inequality in US society in the 20th century. A Tale of Two Integrations explores Chicago's place in the national story of integration, with particular attention to post-WWII America. Two intellectual concerns drive this course: 1) Examining the meaning of integration both as a goal and as a process, especially as it was manifested in questions about housing and neighborhoods; 2) the limitations of viewing integration in professional sports as representative of everyday racial experience. Readings will allow us to revisit different periods when Chicago received waves of new arrivals, the community formation process, and tensions over neighborhood transition. We will also engage works in sport history that enlighten the ways the battle for meaningful inclusion was literally and figuratively fought through issues of access to organized sports as well as to recreational and leisure spaces. This course thus juxtaposes the often celebrated narrative of the "successful" integration of baseball where African American Ernie Banks and Afro-Cuban Orestes "Minnie" Minoso emerged as Chicago sporting heroes with the "failed" efforts to racially integrate public housing and residential neighborhoods throughout Chicago. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.