Reframing 1968 : American politics, protest and identity / edited by Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halliwell, Martin, editor.

Witham, Nick, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Protest movements.

Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy. Gay rights, women's rights and civil rights. The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War. The New Left and the New Right. 1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics. 50 years on, 'Reframing 1968' explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. 14 interdisciplinary essays look at how protest has changed in the US, from Students for a Democratic Society and the Civil Rights Movement in the late 1960s, to the Women's Movement in the 1970s, through to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

Contents:

Introduction: 1968, a year of protest / Martin Halliwell and Nick Withma

Part One. Politics of Protest: One. The new left: the American impress / Doug Rossinow ; Two. 1968 and the fractured right / Elizabeth Tanry Shermer ; Three. The irony of protest: Vietnam and the path to permanent war / Andrew Preston ; Four. Life writing, protest and the idea of 1968 / Nick Witham

Part Two. Spaces of Protest: Five. On fire: the city and American protest in 1968 / Daniel Matlin ; Six. Centring the yard: student protest on campus in 1968 / Stefan M. Bradley ; Seven. The ceremony is about to begin: performance and 1968 / Martin Halliwell ; Eight. 1968: a pivotal moment in cinema / Sharon Monteith

Part Three. Identities and Protest: Nine. 1968: end of the Civil Rights Movement? / Stephen Tuck ; Ten. Gay liberation and the spirit of '68 / Simon Hall ; Eleven. Women's movements in 1968 and beyond / Anne M. Valk ; Twelve. Organizing for economic justice in the late 1960s / Penny Lewis

Conclusion: the memory of 1968 / Stephen J. Whitfield.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748698936

0748698930

9780748698950

0748698957

OCLC:

1028107272