A:

WHAT IS THE MYTH OF PRUITT-IGOE? BE SURE TO INCLUDE A DISCUSSION OF STRUCTURAL RACISM/POVERTY IN YOUR ANSWER. 2-3 PAGES.

B: 3-4 pages

1. WHAT IS LIBERAL CONSENSUS AND WHAT HAPPENED TO IT?

2. WHY WERE WE IN VIETNAM? WRITE A COHERENT ESSAY EXPLAINING AMERICA’S INVOLVEMENT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA. PLEASE USE MATERIAL FROM O‘ BRIEN, LECTURES, THE TEXT AND THE FILM.

3.MANY AMERICANS FELT IN THE YEARS AFTER WORLD WAR TWO, THAT THE AMERICAN DREAM WAS COMING TRUE. DISCUSS.

4.WRITE AN ESSAY DESCRIBING THE PROCESSES SET IN MOTION BY THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO AND EXPLAIN HOW THEY LED BOTH TO THE WAR IN VIETNAM AND THE CLASH BETWEEN THE WAR IN INDOCHINA AND LBJ’S HOPES FOR “A GREAT SOCIETY.”

5.DESCRIBE THE IMPACT OF THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK ON THE NATION, INCLUDING THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE MURDER. WAS THERE A LONG TERM IMPACT RELATED TO KENNEDY’S DEATH.?

6. T.H. WHITE SPECULATED THAT LYNDON JOHNSON MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST PRESIDENT OF THE 20TH CENTURY HAD THERE BEEN NO OUTSIDE WORLD. DISCUSS

7. MANY OBSERVERS OF THE AMERICAN SCENE HAVE DEPICTED THE 1950S AS A TIME OF BLAND CONFORMITY AND THE 1960S AS A PERIOD OF UNBRIDLED SOCIAL FERMENT. HOW TRUE IS THIS ASSERTION? DRAW UPON LECTURES AND READINGS TO ARGUE YOUR POSITION

8. USING NOTES FROM LECTURE, THE TEXTS, (INCLUDING) JAMES BALDWIN’S THE FIRE NEXT TIME) AND THE FILM FOUR LITTLE GIRLS WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT THE CLASSICAL PHASE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND THE CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS IT PRODUCED AMONG BLACK AND WHITE AMERICANS. BE SURE TO INCLUDE A DISCUSSION OF ITS TACTICS, ITS IMPACT ON WHITE LIBERALS, ITS TRIUMPHS AND ITS LIMITATIONS.