Rethinking the New Left : an interpretative history / Van Gosse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosse, Van.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Radicalism--United States--History--20th century.

Radicalism.

New Left.

History.

United States.

New Left--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements--United States--History--20th century.

Social movements.

United States--History--1945-.

Physical Description:

x, 240 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Summary:

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a host of movements struggled to make democracy and equality realities in America. A radical conception of democracy animated the movements for civil rights and black power, for peace and solidarity with the Third World, and for gender and sexual equality. From Vietnam to the war at home against African and Native Americans, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Americans, from Women's to Gay Liberation, the New Left was the broadest-based movement for fundamental change in American history.

Van Gosse, one of the foremost historians of the American postwar left, has crafted an engaging and concise history of the varied movements and organizations that have been placed under the broad umbrella of the New Left. Rethinking the New Left synthesizes and chronicles protests, confrontations, victories, and defeats over two decades and more, and delivers the most inclusive analytical synthesis of the New Left published to date.

Contents:

Preface: Why This is not Another "Sixties Book" ix

1 Defining the New Left 1

2 America in the 1950s: "The Best of All Possible Worlds" 9

3 The New Left's Origins in the Old Left 19

4 The Black Freedom Struggle: From "We Shall Overcome" to "Freedom Now!" 31

5 Challenging the Cold War Before Vietnam: "Ban the Bomb! Fair Play for Cuba!" 53

6 The Northern Student Movement: "Free Speech" and "Participatory Democracy" 63

7 Underground Feminists and Homophiles: "The Problems that Have No Name" 73

8 Vietnam and "The War at Home" 85

9 Black Power: "A Nation Within a Nation?" 111

10 Red, Brown, and Yellow Power in "Occupied America" 131

11 Women's Liberation and Second-Wave Feminism: "The Personal is Political" 153

12 Gay Liberation: "Out of the Closets and into the Streets!" 171

13 Winning and Losing: The New Left Democratizes America 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-219) and index.

ISBN:

140396694X

1403966958

OCLC:

57316890