COURSE OBJECTIVES

The purposes of this course are the following:

• To survey the elements and historical implications of alienation, estrangement and the rise of subcultures as they exist in the multi-cultural, pluralistic 20th century civilization.

• To isolate, through readings in Philosophy, Chicano and Afro-American history and literature some expressions of alienation and estrangement and roots of a sub-cultural identity as they may apply to the individual in the United States of America.

• To find some indices for measuring personal identification in the mass society or to find the sources of personal estrangement, alienation and "cult" (sub-cultural) identity. This will be done through reading, careful reflection and the formulation of a critique of the expressions of alienation, estrangement, and societally-viewed deviancy.

BOOKS REQUIRED

PHILOSOPHY SECTION:

• From Alienation, by Richard Schacht, New York: a Doubleday Anchor Book. (optional)
• The following three essays will be included with course syllabus:
  1. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (pp. 38-68)
  2. Marx's Man and Labor (pp. 81-122)
  3. Erich Fromm (pp. 124-147)LI>

CHICANO STUDIES SECTION:

• Occupied America, by Rodolofo Acuna, New York: Canfield Press, a dept. of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. 1972
• North From Mexico, by Carey McWilliams, New York: Greenwood Press, 1968

HISTORY SECTION:

• The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. Dubois, Crest
• Black Skin, White Masks, by F. Fanon, Vantage, Random House
• New Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature, by Abraham Chapman, New American Library
• The Aliens Among Us, by James White, Ballantine/Random House (optional)

OTHER:

• Joseph Gibaldi and Walter Achtert, MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association, 1988. ISBN 0-87352-379-2. (Note: This book is required for all HUX Courses.)

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