Growing up America : youth and politics since 1945 / edited by Susan Eckelmann Berghel, Sara Fieldston, and Paul M. Renfro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berghel, Susan Eckelmann, editor.

Fieldston, Sara, 1983- editor.

Renfro, Paul M., 1987- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.

Youth.

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

Youth movements.

History.

Youth--Political activity.

United States--Politics and government--20th century.

United States.

Politics and government.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]

Summary:

"Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people-and their representations-at the center of key political trends, illuminating the dynamic and complex roles played by youth in the midcentury rights revolutions, in constructing and challenging cultural norms, and in navigating the vicissitudes of American foreign policy and diplomatic relations. The authors featured here reveal how young people have served as both political actors and subjects from the early Cold War through the late twentieth-century Age of Fracture. At the same time, Growing Up America contends that the politics of childhood and youth extends far beyond organized activism and the ballot box. By unveiling how science fairs, breakfast nooks, Boy Scout meetings, home economics classrooms, and correspondence functioned as political spaces, this anthology encourages a reassessment of the scope and nature of modern politics itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The junior Marshall Plan : children, world friendship, and internationalism after World War II / Sara Fieldston

Friends of the free world : The Boy Scouts and the juvenilization of America's Cold War Empire / Mischa Honeck

Science fairs as national security : adolescent culture in postwar America, 1950-1965 / Sarah Scripps

Training Teenagers : Social Acceptance and Consensus Building in Postwar America / Molly Jessup

Gender, civic fitness, and disability in post-World War II American youth organizations / Jennifer Helgren

"Remove our troops from Veit Nom and listen" : youth diplomacy and Johnson's Vietnam War / Susan Eckelmann Berghel

A "force for change" : youth activists and the Asian American movement / Andrea Kwon

Dictating their own future : indigenous student activists, cultural relevancy, and shaping the education of future generations / Paul Mckenzie-Jones

"The white[s] say they are American, but they are not" : subversive pamphlets mailed by American children and teens to the White House, 1972-1984 / Cara Elliott

Engineering girls : the evolution of advocacy for young women's STEM education / Amy Sue Bix

"Say you love Satan" : teens and popular occulture in 1980s America / Kyle Riismandel

Accessing equality : high school students, the First Amendment, and the Equal Access Act of 1984 / Jenny Diamond Cheng

Milk carton kids : endangered childhood and the carceral state / Paul M. Renfro

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820356631

0820356638

9780820356648

0820356646

OCLC:

1097959790