Rogin (Michael Paul) papers

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Series 1. Correspondence 1966-2001

Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 1-9

Scope and Contents

Six folders of incoming and one folder of outgoing correspondence. Includes The Ideology of the Black Panther Party, by Mike Quigley (1972); and Democracy and Race in Jacksonian America by Louis S. Gerteis (1994), which were sent to Rogin. Correspondence can also be found with Rogin's writings and with the administrative materials in Series 5.

Series 2. Writings 1964-2001

Physical Description: Carton 1, folders 10-29; Cartons 2-5

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, drafts, and research notes related to Rogin's publications (books, articles, book reviews). Also includes reviews and reprints of his work. Arranged roughly chronologically within each section. Please note there is overlap with Series 3. Research Notes.

Published Books

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The Intellectuals and McCarthy: The Radical Specter (Published 1967) 1964-1968

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters (some may be for other projects) and reviews.

carton 1, folder 13-24

Political Change in California: Critical Elections and Social Movements, 1890-1966, with John L. Shover (Published 1970) approximately 1957-1972

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, contracts, drafts, notes, research, reviews of the book, and related articles. These articles include Progressivism and the California Elections; California Populism and the "System of 1896"; Non-Partisanship and the Group Interest; and Politics, Emotion, and the Wallace Vote

carton 1, folder 25-29

Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Subjugation of the American Indian (Published 1975) approximately 1975-1977, 1991

Scope and Content Note

Includes reviews, conference papers about the book, materials re: the Transaction edition; photos for the book, and a Jackson family tree

carton 2, folder 1-10

Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville (Published 1983) 1983-1988

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence re: the French translation, drafts, notes, photographs, and reviews. Folder 10 also has photos for his book on Reagan

carton 2, folder 11-25

Ronald Reagan, the Movie and Other Episodes in Political Demonology (Published 1987) approximately 1979-1992

Scope and Content Note

Includes drafts; materials re: the French translation; notes; photographs of Reagan, Lincoln, and D.W. Griffith's films; reviews; revisions; and talks. There are also related articles/book chapters, such as The King's Two Bodies: Lincoln, Wilson, Nixon, and Presidential Self-Sacrifice; and The Sword Became a Flashing Vision

carton 2, folder 26-34

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot (Published 1996) 1991-1999

Scope and Content Note

Includes Rogin's article about blackface, correspondence (there are letters to Tikkun and the Jewish Daily Forward), drafts, an interview with Rogin, notes, permissions, photographs/stills, and reviews (The original title of the book was Uncle Sammy and My Mammy.)

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Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot (Published 1996) approximately 1996-2000

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes on the origins of the Blackface project; reader's reports; and letters, etc. re: the affirmative action issue of Representations, and the publication Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. Includes materials related to Two Declarations of Independence, which was a chapter in Blackface, White Noise. There are also notes on The Little Shop of Horrors.

carton 3, folder 5-6, 6A

American Demonology/Les Démons d'Amérique 1996-1998

Scope and Content Note

Preface to the French edition, reviews, contract

carton 3, folder 7-12

Independence Day, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Enola Gay (Published 1998) approximately 1995-1998

Scope and Content Note

Includes correspondence, drafts, notes, photographs, and proofs

Reprints

carton 3, folder 13-18

Published Book Reviews approximately 1966-2001

Scope and Content Note

Includes the reviews Rogin did regularly in the London Review of Books. Some are photocopies

carton 3, folder 19-25

Published Articles approximately 1966-1997

Articles, Book Chapters, Book Reviews, Conference Papers, Talks

Scope and Content Note

May include administrative records. correspondence, drafts, photographs, proofs

carton 3, folder 26-27

Miscellaneous Writings and Notes, including [Saliency and Racist Political Behavior] approximately 1965, 1990s

carton 3, folder 28-31

Book Reviews 1966-1981

Scope and Content Note

Includes Nationality and Regionalism in Eight African States; Patricide in the House Divided; Pa Bell draft/Who Voted for Hitler; and The Sleep of Reagan

carton 3, folder 32-33

Richard Nixon: The Psychology of the Missing Person approximately 1971-1978

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes for [another] Nixon article

carton 3, folder 34

Nature as Politics and Nature as Romance in America 1977

carton 3, folder 35

Permissions approximately 1979-1986

carton 3, folder 36-37

On the Jewish Question - Review Essay approximately 1982

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Reviews by Rogin 1987-1993

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Control, Suppression, and Intimidation in American Political History [1987]

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Puddinhead Wilson Conference 1988

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Article for the Nation - Drafts, Proofs 1988

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The Great Mother Domesticated (Intolerance/D.W. Griffith Article) 1988-1991

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes, drafts, correspondence, photos

carton 4, folder 11-17

Make My Day! Spectacle as Amnesia in Imperial Politics 1988-1992

Scope and Content Note

Also called Make My Day!: The Sequel. Includes drafts, correspondence

carton 4, folder 18-19

Ross Perot Articles approximately 1992

Scope and Content Note

Back to the Future with Ross Perot/Meet Ross Perot. Includes Navasky correspondence re: Nation Article

carton 4, folder 20-22

Book Reviews approximately 1989-1993

Scope and Content Note

Includes letters and reviews of Miriam Hansen, Eric Lott; correspondence (some with John Wiener); draft of his review of White Skin, Black Masks

carton 4, folder 23-24

Making America Home/Blackface, White Noise – Articles 1991-1992

carton 4, folder 25-26

Racial Masquerade and Ethnic Assimilation/Revolutionary Fathers and Confidence Men, with Correspondence approximately 1992-1993

carton 4, folder 27

Orientalism in the Movies Conference (Broken Blossoms) 1993

carton 4, folder 28-33

Body and Soul Murder: JFK 1992-1993

Scope and Content Note

Includes photographs, texts, drafts, letters

carton 4, folder 34

Conference Papers about Blacks and Jews - Not by Rogin 1993-1994

carton 4, folder 35-42

Book Reviews 1994-1997

Scope and Content Note

Includes the following files: Gulf War books; Meeting Freud's Family (drafts and letters); Evans; Mailer; John Wayne book; Imagineering Atlanta and Washington, D.C.; Nationalism in Europe; Evil Sisters; and Raymond Chandler

carton 5, folder 1

Research Project: The American Dream of France (France-Berkeley Association) 1996

carton 5, folder 2-5

Articles, approximately 1996-1998

Scope and Content Note

What Is Race?; Spielberg's List; Black Sacrifice, Jewish Redemption; and Mamet's Leo Frank (notes, letters, draft)

carton 5, folder 6-14

Book Reviews approximately 1998-2001

Scope and Content Note

Includes drafts and articles: notes, letters For Amistad Review; The Scar that Binds; Get Mikey/Mike Davis; Ross, Working-Class Hollywood; Natalie Davis; The Cultural Cold War; London Review of Books on MLK (correspondence); and Dutch (Reagan memoir). There is also a review of Bamboozled in Cineaste from 2001.

carton 5, folder 15-16

On Saving Private Ryan – World War Nostalgia 1999

carton 5, folder 17-19

Juneteenth Review (Lighting Out for the Territory)/Talks 1999-2000

Scope and Content Note

Includes notes for talks on the Blackface book

carton 5, folder 20-22

What's the Matter with Capra, with Kathleen Moran (Drafts and Notes) 1999-2000

carton 5, folder 23-24

Symposium on Bamboozled/Kiss Me Deadly 2000

carton 5, folder 25-28

Unamerican Activities Collection (Proposed) approximately 2000

carton 5, folder 29-31

How the Working Class Saved Capitalism 2000-2001

carton 5, folder 32

Movies and the Black Question

Series 3. Research Files 1952-2001

Physical Description: Cartons 6-7; Carton 8, folders 1-11; Carton 9, folders 1-16; Oversize Box 1; Oversize Folder 1

Scope and Content Note

Please note that there is significant overlap with Series 4. Course Materials

carton 6, folder 1-33

Election and Voting Data - California and Baltimore approximately 1952-1967

Scope and Content Note

The bulk of these materials are likely related to the book he wrote with John L. Shover, Political Change in California, and Rogin's other essays about elections. Primarily California and Baltimore, Maryland, but also Indiana, Illinois, Wyoming.

Includes census data; reviews and analyses of registration and voting; reports on redevelopment; recapitualation of votes cast; canvasser's sheets; California Statement of Vote; election data - graphs, tables, statistics, correlations, and problems/problem sets re: voting behavior; fair housing referendum; correspondence; geopolitical and election maps; bibliographies; "What We Want," Stokely Carmichael, 1966; neighborhood characteristics; integration and white backlash in [Deerfield] Michigan; microfiche and punch cards from the Berkeley Computer Center; and data re: Baltimore elections, including the Democratic primary

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Election and Voting Data - Baltimore, Cleveland, and California approximately 1956-1967

Scope and Content Note

Includes Baltimore election results and census tracts; Cleveland clippings; Metsker's Maps – Orange and Los Angeles County; neighborhood characteristics and election data

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Notes/Articles by Others approximately 1955-1979

Scope and Content Note

Includes Rogin's annotated copy of Plato's Gorgias, clippings, and reprints; subjects of articles include California politics, Cold War film, and the Jewish Labor Committee.

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Notes/Articles by Others approximately 1975-1979

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Articles by Others 1978

Scope and Content Note

American Political Science Association 1978 Annual Meeting; and Architects of the Capitol

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Durbin Watson Statistics - Correlations [re: George Wallace, 1960s]

carton 8, folder 7-11

Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - Notes and Clippings approximately 1971-1985

Scope and Content Note

Includes a postcard from Charles Karren

carton 7, folder 7-12

Ronald Reagan - Notes and Clippings approximately 1977-1991

Scope and Content Note

There are slides of presidents (including Reagan), the Ku Klux Klan, the Civil War (some may be from the films Intolerance and Broken Blossoms; these may be for Political Science 535); Reagan Libray material; photographs; and newspaper clippings

carton 7, folder 13-20

Blackface approximately 1988-1996

Scope and Content Note

Includes slides, negatives, photographs, and a chronology of Paul Whiteman's life and career. Some photographic materials are for Rogin's book, Blackface, White Noise. Some of the newspaper clippings date back to the 1920s.

carton 7, folder 21-44

Miscellaneous, approximately 1980-2001

Scope and Content Note

Includes the Chancellor's Research Professor Report (1998); letters from David Karns and Fred Schaeffer; notes on J.C. Milner's "Chomsky"; articles on minstrelsy; notes from the Academy of Motion Pictures archives; notes about films and on Tom Engelhardt's article; materials for Rogin's article on Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren; notes, with text by Assia Djebar; materials for his book review on caricature; notes on music, film, and the Bush, Jr. election; and notes on Rossellini, Rome Open City, and Italian Neo-Realism.

carton 9, folder 1-5

Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Includes San Francisco Chronicle cartoons from 1919 and Spiro T. Agnew Speaks Out (phonograph record); and figures and statistics [from WWI]

carton 9, folder 6-16

Notebooks

Scope and Content Note

These appear to be notes Rogin took on books and articles he read

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Poster - Les Races Humaines - 24 Planches en Coulers par v. Huen, Artiste - Peintre - Imageries Reuinies de Jarville-Nancy

Series 4. Course Materials 1955-2001

Physical Description: Carton 8, folder 12; Carton 9, folders 17-30; Cartons 10-14; Carton 15, folders 1-6

Scope and Content Note

Consists of materials from classes Rogin took and taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago, and from courses that he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. Files from UC Berkeley classes are arranged roughly in chronological order, with materials from the same courses grouped together. Original folder titles were retained; some were taken from syllabi. A lot of the material is on index cards, much of it is unidentified, and some of it is hard to read. Please note there is overlap with Series 3. Research Files

carton 9, folder 17-30

Rogin's Student Papers, Course Work, and Notes approximately 1955-1961

Scope and Content Note

The groupings and dates indicate these are from Harvard and the University of Chicago. Rogin received his BA from Harvard in 1958. He earned his MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from Chicago in 1959 and 1962 respectively. Includes Case Studies in the Comparative Study of Politics; exam books; bibliographies and syllabi; course notes from classes in Political Science, Sociology/Human Development, Economics, Government, and Social Science

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Harvard, University of Chicago approximately 1956-1963

Scope and Content Note

Includes assignments, bibliographies, course notes, and syllabi from the following courses: a class taught by Talcott Parsons, the Social Structure of the U.S. (Harvard); Government 115, Social Science 118 (Harvard); Social Thought 352, Political Sociology, Administrative and Constitutional Law [University of Chicago]; American Constitutional Development/The Judicial Process; Voting Rights, Quantitative Methods, and History classes (Harvard and University of Chicago). There are also exam questions from Makerere University College, Uganda (1962-1963)

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[University of Chicago]

Scope and Content Note

Includes David Apter – Draft, Course [University of Chicago], approximately 1960

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University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley - Political Science Courses

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University of California, Berkeley 1963-1977

Scope and Content Note

Includes bibliographies, lectures and lecture notes, and syllabi for the following classes: Political Science 163; Political Science 1; Political Science 118 (History of Western Political Theory, with Pitman); and Political Science 260, 260A (Social Groups and Political Power). May include reprints of articles by Rogin and others.

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University of California, Berkeley 1964-2000

Scope and Content Note

Includes bibliographies, lectures and lecture notes, newspaper clippings, and syllabi for the following classes: American Studies 33A-C; Political Science 200A; Political Science 160; Political Science 247A; the Modern American Presidency (1968); Political Science 287B; and Political Science 113A-B/History 169 (American Political Thought). Also includes a draft of New Radicalism in America

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University of California, Berkeley 1975-2000

Scope and Content Note

Includes bibliographies, lectures and lecture notes, newspaper clippings, and syllabi for the following classes: Political Science 610; Political Science 114/History of Art 174; History 119 (Society and the Sexes in Early Modern Europe, with Natalie Z. Davis); Political Science 275A-B (Politics and Culture); Political Science 118D (History of Western Political Theory, with Pitman); class taught with Carolyn Porter (American Studies/IDA 33A); Political Science 112B/118B/118D/214 (History of Political Theory, with Hanna Pitkin); and Political Science 112C/217 (on various topics: Politics and Culture/Culture and Politics: Women's Condition...; Modern European Politcal Theory; and The Body and the Body Politic). There are also McCarthy lecture notes

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Government/CHUM 475 (Center for the Humanities) – Race, Politics and Culture in Antelbellum America approximately 1975

Scope and Content Note

Includes essays and clippings

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University of California, Berkeley 1984-2001

Scope and Content Note

Includes bibliographies, lectures and lecture notes, newspaper clippings, and syllabi for the following classes: Political Science 41 (Women in the City); Political Science 102 (The American Executive/The American Presidency); Political Science 219 (Women and Politics/Feminism: Theory and History); Political Science 109 (Women and Politics); Political Science 33 (Race, Ethnicity, and American Identities), 1992-1995); Political Science 41 (Race and Ethnicity in the US); film studies classes; American Studies 101/Political Science 116; Sex, Gender, and Sexuality; "Displacing Borders: Interdisciplinary Methods in American Studies at UC Berkeley"; The Frontier in American History; and IDS 338 (Americans in Paris). There are also notes on Ronald Reagan for Political Science 102, exams and lectures in 20th Century American History, and miscellaneous course notes, lectures, and drafts

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University of California, Berkeley - Miscellaneous Course Notes

Series 5. Departmental and University of California, Berkeley Administrative Records 1964-2001

Physical Description: Carton 15, folders 7-24

Arrangement

Arranged roughly in chronological order

Scope and Content Note

There is some overlap with Series 4. Course Materials. Includes personalia

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Letters of Recommendation approximately 1964-1967

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Applications for Grants, Research Assistants 1964

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Ph.D. Written Exams – Faculty Committee 1965

carton 15, folder 10

Proposals for Sabbatical Research 1966

Personnel Documents 1970-1998

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Bio-Bibliography 1977

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National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars for College Teachers 1984

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Research Grants and Fellowships 1985-1992

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Articles about Rogin/Poster for Keynote Address on Harvard Conference - Dissident Spectators, Disruptive Spectacles 1986-1998

carton 15, folder 16-21

Rogin Teaching Evaluations/Merit Review/Distinguished Teaching Award Nomination 1988-1994

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Grant Applications (for Research)/Personnel Materials 1993-2001

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Programme France-Berkeley 1996

carton 15, folder 24

Contact Sheet with Photographs of Rogin