Winter in America : a cultural history of neoliberalism, from the sixties to the Reagan revolution / Daniel Robert McClure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClure, Daniel Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Neoliberalism.

White nationalism--United States--History.

White nationalism.

Male domination (Social structure)--United States--History.

Male domination (Social structure).

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

Privatization.

Economic policy.

History.

Social policy.

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

United States.

United States--Economic policy--History--20th century.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 448 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Daniel McClure's book tracks the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the arrival of neoliberalism at the dawn of the 1980s. During those years, civil rights reforms and the opening of the workplace to people of color and women provoked a sharp backlash. McClure's story unfolds through the examination of various confrontations erupting in popular media, including film, television, music, and the business press. From the 1965 debate between William F. Buckley and James Baldwin, through the pages of BusinessWeek and Playboy, to the rise of exploitation cinema in the 1970s, McClure tracks the increasingly shared perception by white males that they had 'lost' their long-standing rights-and that a great neoliberal reckoning would be necessary if America's longstanding repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations were to be restored"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 American Innocence through the Possession of History

James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the 1965 Cambridge Debate

ch. 2 Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

Western Civilization, the Longue Duree, and the Culture of Neoliberalism

ch. 3 The Jim Crow Welfare State and the Corporate Revolution

Postwar American Capitalism

ch. 4 The Idea of Doing with Less so that Big Business Can Have More

The Culture and Ethos o/Business Week

ch. 5 Go West and Turn Right

Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism, and John Waynes Possession of History

ch. 6 Blood, Breasts, and Beasts

The Feminist Liberation Gauntlet and Flexible Misogyny at the Dawn of Social Equality

ch. 7 Does Militancy No Longer Mean Guns at High Noon?

Feminist Dialogues, the Corporate Woman, and the Dawn of Neoliberalism

ch. 8 Who Will Survive in America?

The Black Radical Tradition and the Poetic Critique of Neoliberalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781469664675

1469664674

9781469664682

1469664682

OCLC:

1240826424