Clio's foot soldiers : twentieth-century U.S. social movements and collective memory / Lara Leigh Kelland

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelland, Lara Leigh, author.

Series:

Public history in historical perspective.

Public history in historical perspective series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights movement--History.

Civil rights movement.

Collective memory--United States--History--20th century.

Collective memory.

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

Social movements.

Gay liberation movement--United States--History--20th century.

Gay liberation movement.

Black power--United States--History--20th century.

Black power.

Red Power movement--History--20th century.

Red Power movement.

United States--Social conditions--20th century.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 207 pages.) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Twentieth-century U.S. social movements and collective memory

20th century United States social movements and collective memory

Place of Publication:

Amherst, Massachusetts : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018].

Summary:

"Collective memories are key to social movements. Activists draw on a shared history to build identity, create movement cohesion, and focus political purpose. But what happens when marginalized communities do not find their history in dominant narratives? How do they create a useable past to bind their political communities together and challenge their exclusion?In Clio's Foot Soldiers, Lara Leigh Kelland investigates these questions by examining 1960s and 1970s social movements comprised of historically marginalized peoples: Civil Rights, Black Power, Women's and Gay Liberation, and American Indian. These movements sought ownership over their narratives to create historical knowledge reflective of their particular experiences. To accomplish their goals, activists generated new forms of adult education, published movement newspapers, and pursued campus activism and speeches, public history efforts and community organizations. Through alternative means, marginalized communities developed their own historical discourses to mobilize members, define movement goals, and become culturally sovereign. In so doing, they provided a basis for achieving political liberation and changed the landscape of liberal cultural institutions."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In a long line of protest

The Civil Rights Movement and a new collective memory

Knowledge of self liberation and education through black separatist collective memory

A history of one's own

Feminist collective memory in the second wave Women's Movement

Scripted to win

Collective memory in the Gay Liberation Movement

For the sake of cultural survival

Red power and collective memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-198) and index.

ISBN:

9781613765821 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1029777063