Some Things Y'all Need to Know: Teaching Southern Politics at Home and Abroad

Autor/in	Overby, L. Marvin
Titel	Some Things Y'all Need to Know: Teaching Southern Politics at Home and Abroad
Quelle	In: Journal of Political Science Education, 4 (2008) 1, S.98-115 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-2169
Schlagwörter	College Students; Labor Economics; Slavery; Political Power; Politics; United States History; Political Issues; Social Justice; International Education; Political Science; Teaching Methods; Educational Objectives; Racial Relations; Regional Characteristics; Economic Factors; College Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Arbeitsökonomie; Sklaverei; Politische Macht; Politik; Politischer Faktor; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Internationale Erziehung; Staatslehre; Politikwissenschaft; Politische Wissenschaft; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Regionaler Faktor; Ökonomischer Faktor; Hochschullehre
Abstract	The modern South is a thriving region that is increasingly like the rest of the United States; however, that has not always been the case. Indeed, the political history of the American South is one that has been focused on the integration of this historically underdeveloped region into the remainder of American society, economically (especially in terms of labor markets), politically, judicially, and socially. And, even as the South has become increasingly similar to the rest of the country, it remains an especially important region for the balance of national political power. In this essay, I describe a class I teach on Southern Politics, explaining how I have organized it around topics critical to an understanding of American political development, and I describe the innovative pedagogical perspective I bring to the class (rooting the course in the labor economics of slavery and the "peculiar institution's" long-term consequences). I also discuss in some detail the importance of this class for American students as they try to understand America's development as a nation and the lessons that can be learned by international students from the South's experiences, providing some qualitative evidence of the course's impact. (Contains 55 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10