Finding Aid to the Michael Paul Rogin papers BANC MSS 2003/228
Marjorie Bryer
The Bancroft Library
August 2023
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Michael Paul Rogin papers
Creator:
Rogin, Michael Paul
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2003/228
Physical Description:
20 linear feet
(15 cartons, 1 oversize box, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1952-2001
Abstract: This collection documents the writings and teaching career of University of California, Berkeley political scientist Michael
Rogin. The bulk of the collection contains drafts of articles, reviews, and books; reprints; research files (with photographs
and slides); and teaching materials. There is a small amount of correspondence and administrative material. The collection
is divided into five series: Correspondence; Writings; Research Files; Course Materials; and Departmental and University of
California, Berkeley Administrative Records.
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Accruals
No future additions are expected.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Michael Paul Rogin papers were given to The Bancroft Library in 2003 by Ann Banfield.
Alternate Forms Available
There are no alternative forms of this collection.
Biography
Michael Paul Rogin was Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He as born in Mt.
Kisco, New York in 1937, recieved his BA from Harvard (1958), and his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1959-1962).
Rogin spent a year at Makerere University in Uganda, then taught Political Science at UC Berkeley from 1963 until his death
in 2001. Rogin belonged to the "Berkeley school" of political theory, and his work is notable for its critique of American
imperialism, and its interdisciplinarity. In addition to political science, Rogin taught courses in the humanities and social
sciences, including ones on film, Marxism, race and racism, and feminism. He also taught classes in English, comparative literature,
history, American studies, sociology, and ethnic studies. Rogin received the Award for Distinguished Teaching and, in 1996,
was among the first group at Berkeley to be honored with a Chancellor's Professorship. Rogin served on the editorial committee
of UC Press for several decades and was a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. Rogin died in Paris in 2001;
Ann Banfield, a Professor in the UC Berkeley English Department, was his companion at the time of his death.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michael Paul Rogin papers, BANC MSS 2003/228, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
System of Arrangement
Arranged to the carton and to the folder level.
Processing Information
Processed by Marjorie Bryer in 2023.
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Content Description
This collection documents the writings and teaching career of University of California, Berkeley political scientist Michael
Rogin. The bulk of the collection contains drafts of articles, reviews, and books; reprints; research files (with photograps
and slides); and teaching materials. There is a small amount of correspondence and administrative material.
A colleague of Rogin's put post-it notes identifying materials on many folders. These notes - and original folder titles -
were retained. Efforts were made to distinguish between research notes and notes for classes, but there is likely significant
overlap between the two. There is a small amount of material in French. The collection is divided into five series: Correspondence;
Writings; Research Files; Course Materials; and Departmental and University of California, Berkeley Administrative Records.
Publication Rights
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Rogin, Michael Paul -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley -- Faculty.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Political Science
Political science -- Study and teaching
Political science -- Research.
Faculty papers
carton 1, folder 1-9
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.
carton 1, folder 10-12
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.)
carton 3, folder 1-4
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
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
carton 4, folder 1
Reviews by Rogin
1987-1993
carton 4, folder 2
Control, Suppression, and Intimidation in American Political History
[1987]
carton 4, folder 3
Puddinhead Wilson Conference
1988
carton 4, folder 4
Article for the Nation - Drafts, Proofs
1988
carton 4, folder 5-10
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
carton 8, folder 1-5
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
carton 7, folder 1-4
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.
carton 8, folder 6
Notes/Articles by Others
approximately 1975-1979
carton 7, folder 5-6
Articles by Others
1978
Scope and Content Note
American Political Science Association 1978 Annual Meeting; and Architects of the Capitol
oversize_box 1
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
oversize_folder 1
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
carton 10
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)
carton 11, folder 1-9
[University of Chicago]
Scope and Content Note
Includes David Apter – Draft, Course [University of Chicago], approximately 1960
carton 11, folder 10
University of Chicago and University of California, Berkeley - Political Science Courses
carton 11, folder 11-22
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.
carton 12
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
carton 13
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
carton 8, folder 12
Government/CHUM 475 (Center for the Humanities) – Race, Politics and Culture in Antelbellum America
approximately 1975
Scope and Content Note
Includes essays and clippings
carton 14
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
carton 15, folder 1-6
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
carton 15, folder 7
Letters of Recommendation
approximately 1964-1967
carton 15, folder 8
Applications for Grants, Research Assistants
1964
carton 15, folder 9
Ph.D. Written Exams – Faculty Committee
1965
carton 15, folder 10
Proposals for Sabbatical Research
1966
Personnel Documents
1970-1998
carton 15, folder 13
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars for College Teachers
1984
carton 15, folder 14
Research Grants and Fellowships
1985-1992
carton 15, folder 15
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
carton 15, folder 22
Grant Applications (for Research)/Personnel Materials
1993-2001
carton 15, folder 23
Programme France-Berkeley
1996
carton 15, folder 24
Contact Sheet with Photographs of Rogin