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Online-Ressource (281 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781566399753
Serie:
Critical Perspectives On The P
Inhalt:
Starting with the premise that it is possible to say something significantly new about the 1960s and the New Left, the contributors to this volume trace the social roots, the various paths, and the legacies of the movement that set out to change America. As members of a younger generation of scholars, none of them (apart from Paul Buhle) has first-hand knowledge of the era. Their perspective as non-participants enables them to offer fresh interpretations of the regional and ideological differences that have been obscured in the standard histories and memoirs of the period. Reflecting the diver
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Contents; Introduction "You Didn't Have to Be There": Revisiting the New Left Consensus; PART I Local Studies, Local Stories; Chapter 1: "It Seemed a Very Local Affair": The Student Movement at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale; Chapter 2: Between Despair and Hope: Revisiting Studies on the Left; Chapter 3: Building the New South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee; Chapter 4: The Black Freedom Struggle and White Resistance: A Case Study of the Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland
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Chapter 5: Organizing from the Bottom Up: Lillian Craig, Dovie Thurman, and the Politics of ERAPChapter 6: Death City Radicals: The Counterculture in Los Angeles; PART I I Reconsiderations; Chapter 7: How New Was the New Left?; Chapter 8: Strategy and Democracy in the New Left; Chapter 9: The "Point of Ultimate Indignity" or a "Beloved Community"? The Draft Resistance Movement and Gender Dynamics; Chapter 10: Losing Our Kids: Queer Perspectives on the Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial
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Chapter 11: Between Revolution 9 and Thesis 11: Or, Will We Learn (Again) to Start Worrying and Change the World?Chapter 12: Letting Go: Revisiting the New Left's Demise; Afterword: How Sweet It Wasn't: The Scholars and the CIA; About the Contributors;
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781592137978
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781566399753
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version New Left Revisited
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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