Vel Phillips Papers (Teaching, Box 4)

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Department of Afro-American Studies Semester I 1982-1983

341 Black Politics and City Government LLoyd A. Barbee, JD, Adjunct Professor Tuesdays, 6:30-9:10 P.M. Mitchell Hall, Room 165

This course provides an overview of black politics at the city level which impacts on county, state and national levels. It is concerned with (1) black political power, (2) self-interest issues, (3) coalitions for mutual interest, (4) methods of study and (5) critical analysis of black political action and city government.

I. Black political power September 7 Historical September 14 Current Assessment

II. Self-interest issues September 21 Education September 28 Employment October 5 Housing October 12 Health, Human Services, Justice & Leisure October 19 Reapportionment

III Coalitions for mutual interest October 26 Political Parties November 2 Economic and Political Systems November 9 Social and Religious institutions

IV. Methods used to study black city and local politics November 16 Statistical November 23 Marxist, Capitalistic, Third-world Comparison

V. Critical analysis of methods for studying black politics November 30 Discussion December 7 Future Political Action FINAL EXAMINATION

Materials will be distributed in class; other material will be placed on reserve in the Library. A term paper or project is required. Weekly outside reading from one traditional and one black newspaper and other periodicals is required. Discussion is mandatory. A final examination may be required.

Office hours by appointment: Room # 295-H Mitchell; Telephone 963-5085 or 963-4154 private office: 273-5755

Lab: 6/7/82

URBAN VIOLENCE Afro-Am 106-300-001 Prof. Van Horne Spring 1982 T & R 11:00-1:00 p.m. MIT 291 x4154

DESCRIPTION

As the city goes so goes the civilization. At first blush, this appears to be a metaphysical assertion rather than an empirical generalization. Yet, it is undeniable that every truly great civilization in human history has both flowered and decayed in the city. It is thus to the city that we must look if we would understand man at his creative best and destructive worst.

Violence is an instrument of destruction, occasioning harm to those who suffer it. In spite of its destructiveness violence is not without creative possibilities in so far as it prepares the ground upon which a new structure of social relations, that is both normatively and empirically better than the old one, is to be constructed. But violence harms persons and destroys property, hency any claim, or set of claims concerning its creative possibilities must be justified on good grounds. A serious study of the phenomenon of violence must, therefore, scrutinize closely the factors that occasion it, its consequences and purposes. These central ideas will ground our discussion of urban violence.

They should enable us to (I) come to grips with the essential attributes of the city and violence, (II) analyze, using historical examples, the role of violence in modifying and/or transforming the structure of social relations in the city and society, (III) evaluate the possibilities and limits of violence in fostering the improvement of quality of life in the city as well as society at large.

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the semester each student should be able to discuss critically the following:

I) the nature of violence and the major attributes of the city over historical time; II) factors that foster violence in the city; III) types of violence common to the city; IV) the consequences of violence in the city; V) the possibilities and limits of violence as an agent of social change

REQUIREMENTS

I) Regular class attendance II) Participation in class discussion - based on materials covered in the readings and lectures; III) 1st mid-term 30% IV) 2nd mid-term 30% V) Final Exam 40%

OFFICE HOURS

T & R 11:00-1:00 p.m., and by appointment, in Mitchell 291. You are encouraged to come and discuss any questions you may have concerning the materials covered in the lectures and readings. Anyone who wishes to write a paper in lieu of one of the mid-terms may come and discuss this with me.

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READINGS

NOTE!! ONLY the readings with an asterik (*) are required. The others are recommended.

Introduction: The city and civilization.

*Murray Bookchin, The Limits of the City. N. Machiavelli, History of Florence. Montesquieu, Considerations on the Causes of Greatness of the Romans and Their Decline. Arthur M. Schlesinger, The Rise of the City. Edward C. Banfield, The Unheavenly City Revisited, pp. 1-99. Lewis Mumford, The City in History.

II. The Nature of Violence.

*Hugh Davis Graham, Violence in America, pp. 83-188. *Jerome A. Schaffer, (ed.) Violence (all). G. Sorel, Reflections on Violence. Jesse G. Gray, On Understanding Violence Philosophically, and Other Essays. Carl Friedrich, The Pathology of Politics: Violence Betrayal, Corruption, Secrecy and Propaganda. Andrew W. Lincott, Violence in Republic Rome.

III. The 'occasioning factors' of violence in the city. (Special emphasis will be placed on American Cities).

*C.R. Jeffery, (ed.) Biology and Crime (all). Banfield, op. cit., pp. 100-147. Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, pp. 203-282. Jerome H. Skolnich & Elliott Currie, Crisis in American Institutions (2nd. ed.), pp. 79-141. Hannah Arendt, Crises of the Republic, pp. 105-198. Louis K. Loewenstein, Urban Studies, pp. 79-126. David Abrahamson, Our Violent Society. Stuart H. Palmer, The Violent Society. Renatus Harthogs, Violence: Causes and Solutions. Anthony Downs, Urban Problems and Prospectives, pp. 75-114 Rodney St ark, Police Riots: Collective Violence and Law Enforcement. *Charles Silberman, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, pp. 87-165.

IV. --- 1st Mid-Term --- Non-Political Violence: Violence in the Family, Schools and Streets.

*Charles E. Silberman, Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice, pp. 3-86; 169-461. *Graham, op. cit ., pp. 349-374. *Suzanne Steinmetz, Cycle of Violence (all). Suzanne Steinmetz, Violence in the Family. Michael Berger, Violence in the Schools. Lee Bowker, Prisoner Subculture. Banfield, op. cit., pp. 179-233 Lynn A Curtis, Criminal Violence.

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V. --- 2nd Mit-Term --- Political Violence: Terrorism, Assassination, Urban Guerrilla Warfare, Riot/ Revolt/Revolution/Rebellion Coup d' etat, Revolution.

*Yonah Alexander (ed.), Terrorism: Theory and Practice, (all). Carl Friedrich (ed.), Revolution, pp. 53-74; 217-246. Murray C. Mavens, Carl Leiden. Karl M. Schmitt, Assassination and Terrorism: Their Modern Dimensions, (all). *Graham, ,op. cit., pp. 49-76; 307-347; 411-436. Richard Clutterbuck, Protest and the Urban Guerrilla, (all). (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration) Terrorism and Disorder. David C. Rapoport, Assassination and Terrorism. F. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth. V. I. Lentin, Two Tactics. _____, The State and Revolution. Carol Edler Baumann, The Diplomatic Kidnappings: A Revolutionary Tactic of Urban Terrorism. Ralph W. Conant, The Prospects for Revolution. V.O. Nguyen Glap, Military Art of People's War. _______Banner of People's War: The Party's Military Line. James R. Ross, The War Within: Violence or Non-Violence in the Black Revolution. Ted Henderick, Political Violence.

VI. The Effects of Violence: A Cost Benefit Analysis.

E. Cleaver, Soul on Ice. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. (Alex Haley). J. Feagin, Ghetto Revolts: The Politics of Violence in America. Stefan A. Pasternak, Violence and Victims. Michael Stohl, War and Domestic Political Violence, (all). Simon Dintz, (ed), In Fear of Each Other: Studies of Dangerousness in America. Robert M. Conner, (ed), Urban Riots: Violence and Social Change. Hans Toch, Peacekeeping: Police, Prisons, and Violence.

VII: Conclusion: "Every day is a good day to be born, every day is a good day to die." (Pope John XXIII). The creative possibilities and destructive actualities of violence in the city revisited.

[University of Wisconsin-Madison Letterhead: Industrial Relations Research Institute]

May 31, 1983

Vel R. Phillips, Esq. Phillips, Gambrell & Jones 606 W. Wisconsin Avenue Suite 1306 Milwaukee, WI 53203

Dear Vel:

Because there is no one book that is adequate for classroom instruction for a course on urban black politics, I am enclosing a copy of my bibliography which is especially useful for graduate students. For an undergraduate course, requiring less theoretical analysis, but presenting the basics of the black urban experience; I suggest the following:

Dorothy K. Newman, Protest, Politics, and Prosperity, Pantheon Books, New York, 1978;

Herbert Hill, Black Labor and the American Legal System, Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1978;

Florrette Henri, Black Migration, Anchor Books, New York, 1975;

William K. Tabb. The Political Economy of the Black Ghetto, W.W. Norton, New York, 1970.

Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Marking of a Ghetto, Harper & Row. New York, 1966.

Kenneth B. Clark, Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. Harper & Row, New York, 1965.

I do not precisely know what it is you plan to teach, but a selection of material from both the long and short lists will, I am sure, be useful. In any case, good luck in your new career in academia.

Sincerely,

Herbert Hall Professor of Industrial Relations and Professor of Afro-American Studies

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