Syllabus: from Marx to Critical Theory (but with some good links)

http://english.illinoisstate.edu/strickland/495/marxsyl.html

Overview of the Course
Texts Required and Suggested
Written Work and Evaluation

First Week: Micro-essay Position due Jan 25
Intro to 1st Week Readings: Historical Materialism
Terry Eagleton, "Introduction (Part I)," (Marxist Literary Theory, 1-15)
From The German Ideology, (Materialist Conception of History)
Theses on Feuerbach
The Communist Manifesto, Part I (Bourgeois and Proletarians)

....Eighth Week: Micro-essay Position Due March 22

Introductory Comments from Barbara Foley
Barbara Fields, "Slavery, Race, and Ideology" New Left Review 1990: 95-118
Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race," Part I
Ted Allen, "Summary of the Argument of The Invention of the White Race," Part II
David Roediger, Ch 8 from The Wages of Whiteness
Gregory Meyerson, "Marxism, Psychoanalysis and Labor Competition"

Recommended Further Reading:
Alexander Saxton, "Introduction" from The Rise and Fall of the White Republic
B. Foley, "Roads Taken and Not Taken: Post-Marxism, Antiracism, and Anticommunism"
Gregory Meyerson and Jonathan Scott, "An Interview with Theodore W. Allen"
Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower, ch. 1-4.

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