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Women, Political Action and Political Participation in a Course: Ethnic and Minorty Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

Elinor C. Hartshorn
Elinor C. Hartshorn*
Affiliation:
Western New England College
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Extract

In the fall of 1983, I used, “Women, Political Action and Political Participation,” by Virginia Sapiro, as part of a group of materials in a course on “Ethnic and Minority Politics.” The purpose of the course was to evaluate the experience of different groups in their struggle to achieve political power, to examine how these struggles resembled one another and how they differed, and to take a closer look at some major political actors.

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Research Article
Information
News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 48 , Winter 1986 , pp. 12 - 13
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1986

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References

Books and other materials used in the course

Dinnerstein, Leonard and Reimers, David M., Ethnic Americans 2nd. ed., Cambridge: Harper and Row, 1982.Google Scholar
King, Martin Luther, Jr., “Letter From Birmingham Jail,” in Why We Can't Wait. New York: New American Library, 1954.Google Scholar
Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma. New York: Harper & Row, Inc., 1944. Chapter 24 “Inequality of Justice“; Chapter 25, “The Police and Other Public Contacts“; Chapter 26, “The Courts, Sentences and Prisons“; Chapter 27, “Violence and Intimidation“; Chapter 28, “The Basis of Social Inequality“; Chapter 29, “Patterns of Social Segregation“; Chapter 35, “The Negro Protest“; Chapter 39, “Negro Protest and Improvement Organizations“; Chapter 41, “The Negro School“; Chapter 43, “The Negro Press”.Google Scholar
O'Connor, Edwin. The Last Hurrah. New York: Bantam Books, 1957.Google Scholar
Sapiro, Virginia. Women, Political Action and Political Participation. Washington, D.C.: American Political Science Association, 1983.Google Scholar
The State of Black America: 1983. Williams, James D., ed. New York: The National Urban League, 1983. This is an annual publication which each year contains a different set of articles.Google Scholar

Handouts

Monk, John, “A Black Mayor for Charlotte,” Boston Globe (November 19, 1983) p. A36.Google Scholar
Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, “The ‘84 Black Vote: Where it Counts Most,” November 5, 1983, p. 2310.Google Scholar
Public Opinion—Survey Research Data, Charts April/May 1982, pp. 28, 31, 34 December/January 1983, p. 30 February/March 1983, p. 33 October/November 1983, pp. 38-39Google Scholar

Court cases

Each student was responsible for reading two cases in each category; i.e., those which came about because of an individual's race or because of an individual's sex. All cases were reported on in class, involving much discussion.Google Scholar

Cases involving blacks or other races

Roberts v. City of Boston, 5 Cushing 198 (1849). A Massachusetts case—the original articulation of the “Separate but Equal” doctrine in a judicial decision.Google Scholar
Dred Scott v. Sanford, 19 Howard 393 (1857).Google Scholar
Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wall 36 (1873). Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 393 (1880).Google Scholar
Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883).Google Scholar
Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356 (1886).Google Scholar
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).Google Scholar
Berea College v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 211 U.S. 45(1908).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Missouri ex. rel. Gaines v. Canada, 305 U.S. 337(1938).Google Scholar
Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).Google Scholar
Nixon v. Herndon, 273 U.S. 536 (1927).Google Scholar
Nixon v. Congdon, 286 U.S. 73 (1932).Google Scholar
Terry v. Adam, 345 U.S. 461 (1953).Google Scholar
Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974).Google Scholar
Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971).Google Scholar

Cases Involving Women

Myra Bradwell v. Illinois, 16 Wall 130 (1873).Google Scholar
Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Griggs v. Duke Power, 401 U.S. (1971).Google Scholar
Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1979).Google Scholar
Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
General Electric v. Gilbert, 97 S. Ct. 401 (1976).Google Scholar
Califano v. Goldfarb, 97 S. Ct. 1021 (1977).Google Scholar
Califano v. Webster, 97 S. Ct. 1192 (1977).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Guduldig v. Aiello, 471 U.S. 484 (1974).Google Scholar
Gunther v. County of Washington, 623 F. 2d 957(1979).Google Scholar

Other Cases

U.S. Steelworkers of America v. Weber. 433 U.S. 193(1979).Google Scholar
Regents of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978).Google Scholar

Partial list of background materials in subject matter of the course

Barker, Lucius J. and McCorry, Jesse J. Jr. Black Americans and the Political System, 2nd ed. Cambridge, Winthrop Publishers, Inc. 1983.Google Scholar
Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Franklin, John Hope and Meier, August, eds. Urbana, III: University of Illinois Press, 1982.Google Scholar
Chamberlin, Hope. A Minority of Members: Women in the U.S. Congress. New York: Praeger Publishers, Inc. 1973.Google Scholar
Dizard, Jan. E. “Black Identity, Social Class, and Black Power.” Psychiatry XXX (May 1970) pp. 195–207.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Eldersveld, Samuel. Political Parties: A Behavioral Analysis. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1964.Google Scholar
Gabriel, Richard, “A New Theory of Ethnic Voting,” Polity, IV (Summer 1972), pp. 405–428.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Goldstein, Leslie Friedman. The Constitutional Rights of Women. New York, Longman, 1979.Google Scholar
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Harlan, Anne and Carole Weiss, “Moving Up: Women In Managerial Careers”. Unpublished report of three year study comparing women's and men's advancement in management. Some striking similarities to politics. Wellesley, Massachusetts: Center For Research on Women, 1981.Google Scholar
Hartshorn, Elinor C. The Quiet Campaigner: Edward W. Brooke in Massachusetts. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of Massachusetts (Amherst) 1973.Google Scholar
Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. Political Women. New York, Basic Books, Inc. 1974.Google Scholar
Levitan, Tina. The Firsts of American Jewish History. Brooklyn, New York: Charuth Press, 1952.Google Scholar
Mandel, Ruth. In The Running. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1981.Google Scholar
O'Neill, William. Everyone Was Brave: A History of Feminism in America. New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co, 1969.Google Scholar
Sheehan, Edward R.F. “Brooke of Massachusetts: A Negro Governor on Beacon Hill?” Harper's CCXVVIII (June 1946) pp. 41–47.Google Scholar
Smith, Samuel Denny. The Negro In Congress: 1870-1901. Chapel Hill, North Carolina Press, 1940.Google Scholar
Tolchin, Susan and Martin, . Clout. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. 1973.Google Scholar
The Women's Movement: Agenda for the 80's. Washington, D.C. Congressional Quarterly (Editorial Research Reports), 1981.Google Scholar
Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.Google Scholar