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"Better Red than Dead": American Indians' Struggle for Sovereignty Rights in the 1960s and 1970s
Staňková, Olga ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
In my thesis, I argue that the Native American activism of the 1960s and 1970s does not fall into the category of Civil Rights Movement because of its significantly different goals, and that the fundamentally different character of sovereignty rights also keeps the Indian struggle invisible in American understandings of U.S. political and social history. According to my analysis, the terms tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and treaty rights describe the ultimate goals of the Native American activists in the 1960s and 1970s the best. The decade between 1964 and 1974 witnessed the rise of radical Indian activism, which succeeded in reminding the general public and politicians that Indians are still present in the United States. Furthermore, it influenced a whole generation of Native Americans who found new pride in being Indian. However, this current of American activism is not known so well by the general U.S. public. This thesis will describe this state as "selective visibility" deriving from U.S. selective historical memory, only noticing and remembering those events and images concerning Native Americans that can be simply understood, somehow relate to the U.S. set of values, and fit in the national historical narrative.
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Student protests in 1968: Comparison of Czechoslovakia and West Germany
Šutová, Marijana ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is based on comparison of the student protest movement of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and West Germany. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the same and different elements of two student movements with emphasis on students' demands, the way and means of their revolts and the different ideological approaches of the two movements which led to their mutual misunderstanding. The author describes movements in both countries preceding historical events which lead to the protests. The thesis also deals with student protests in other countries in the context of events in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. It then compares the course, demands and the way of student protests in both countries. The main difference between student movements in Czechoslovakia and West Germany was the way of revolt. While Czechoslovak students chose the official way to change the establishment, the protest movement in Germany was rather anti-systemic. Students in both states also came out of different conditions while students in the CSSR protested against a material shortage, resistance in Germany was based on criticism of material surplus. In both countries, however, the same phenomenon of generational conflict occurred. Both movements responded to the international events and protest movements in other countries....
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The Image of Media/Journalism in the Czech Prose of the 1960's
Turková, Barbora ; Jirák, Jan (advisor) ; Köpplová, Barbara (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the depiction of the media and journalism in Czech prose of the 1960s. From the point of view of the entire period of the communist regime's rule in Czechoslovakia, the 1960s are a time of easing political and social conditions, which was also reflected in the literature. The aim of this work is to show the image of the media and journalism in Czech prose in the period in the broader genesis of the portrayal of the media in Czech literature and also with regard to the historical social and cultural context of the 1960s. Moreover, the thesis illustrates through content and text analysis, how individual works of literature describes the medial landscape and the way media officers and their functions are portrayed. Furthermore, the thesis examines the perception of journalists by a society living under the communist regime and how the journalists perceived themselves.
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Student protests in 1968: Comparison of Czechoslovakia and West Germany
Šutová, Marijana ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Cuhra, Jaroslav (referee)
The thesis is based on comparison of the student protest movement of 1968 in Czechoslovakia and West Germany. The main aim of the thesis is to compare the same and different elements of two student movements with emphasis on students' demands, the way and means of their revolts and the different ideological approaches of the two movements which led to their mutual misunderstanding. The author describes movements in both countries preceding historical events which lead to the protests. The thesis also deals with student protests in other countries in the context of events in West Germany and Czechoslovakia. It then compares the course, demands and the way of student protests in both countries. The main difference between student movements in Czechoslovakia and West Germany was the way of revolt. While Czechoslovak students chose the official way to change the establishment, the protest movement in Germany was rather anti-systemic. Students in both states also came out of different conditions while students in the CSSR protested against a material shortage, resistance in Germany was based on criticism of material surplus. In both countries, however, the same phenomenon of generational conflict occurred. Both movements responded to the international events and protest movements in other countries....
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The role of SDS in the events of the 1960s in Germany
Skotnicová, Anita ; Šmidrkal, Václav (advisor) ; Kučera, Rudolf (referee)
The 1960s were marked by a large number of demonstrations in the Western world, mostly attended by students. The increased civic activity of the young generation first appeared in the US when students protested against the war in Vietnam. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the events in Vietnam also belonged to important topics, but at the same time long-term problems of the society escalated too. There have been changes at both political and cultural levels. In the second half of the 1960s, a series of stormy demonstrations took place in Germany over this constellation. This thesis focuses on the "Socialist German Student Union" (SDS), which became the imaginary engine of the student protest movement of the 1960s. At the beginning, the work presents a global context, then the main topics and milestones of the development in Germany in the political, social and cultural spheres. Secondly, the development of the SDS is outlined, with an emphasis on the main themes of the association. Then, the course of the demonstrations in the 1960s, SDS activity and the subsequent development after 1969 is analyzed. Finally the work offers an evaluation of SDS success in advancing its long-term goals in the 1960s.
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The Role of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Missississippi in the 1960s: Fannie Lou Hamer
Navrátilová, Barbora ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kýrová, Lucie (referee)
The bachelor's thesis "The Role of African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s: Fannie Lou Hamer" deals with the status of African American women in the early 1960s, when the ideas of the Civil Rights Movement started to slowly penetrate the isolated state of Mississippi. The study uses the biographical method as a probe into this closed society. The object of this probe is Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the local activists who despite racist attacks and gender and class discrimination demonstrated her courage and leadership skills and became the spokesperson not only of the Mississippi Free Democratic Party, but also of the Civil Rights Movement itself. The case study on Fannie Lou Hamer examines how African American women were involved in the Civil Rights Movement and what obstacles they had to overcome as activists on a daily basis. The first part of the thesis focuses generally on the early waves of activism in Mississippi and on the tactics that local leaders used to mobilize local African Americans. Besides the analysis of the role of African American women in grassroots activities, the thesis also addresses the racial, gender and class discrimination. The second chapter examines the impact of these obstacles on one African American woman - Fannie Lou Hamer....
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The magazine World Literature in the 60th 20th century.
Růžička, Štěpán ; Čeňková, Jana (advisor) ; Osvaldová, Barbora (referee)
This bachelor thesis concerns at content analysis of World Literature magazine in years 1960-1969, which was the era of enourmous development in this periodical and also in a culture of Czechoslovakia. Magazine World Literature is regarded in context of political and cultural dogmatism of regime after February 1948 and also in context of liberalization in 1960s. The work of the redaction of the magazine and its choise of translations and book reviews is analysed quantitatively and also qualitatively and compared with tendentions of State publisher of literatura, music and arts (Odeon) and also with influences of the official socialistic ideology. The main objective of this thesis is to find out what the influence of magazine World Literature was on publishing translations in context of historical and cultural conections in 1960s, especially focused on English and American literature.
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