Freedom's Ring : Literatures of Liberation from Civil Rights to the Second Wave / Jacqueline Foertsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights--United States--History.

Civil rights.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

Liberty--History.

Liberty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Freedom’s Ring begins with the question of how the American ideal of freedom, which so effectively defends a conservative agenda today, from globally exploitative free trade to anti-French “freedom fries” during the War in Iraq, once bolstered the progressive causes of Freedom Summer, the Free Speech Movement, and more militant Black Power and Women’s Liberation movements with equal efficacy. Focused as it is on the faring of freedom throughout the liberation era, this book also explores attempts made by rights movements to achieve the often competitive or cross-canceling American ideal of equality–economic, professional, and otherwise. Although many struggled and died for it in the civil rights era, freedoms such as the vote, integrated bus rides, and sex without consequences via the Pill, are ultimately free–costing officialdom little if anything to fully implement—while equality with respect to jobs, salaries, education, housing, and health care, will forever be the much more expensive nut to crack. Freedom’s Ring regards the politics of freedom, and politics in general, as a low-cost substitute for and engrossing distraction from substantive economic problem-solving from the liberation era to the present day.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Freedom’s ring throughout the post-wwii decades

1 Talking First and Shooting Later in the Black Power Era

2 Nothing Left to Lose: Maximizing Liberties in the Late 1960s Free-for-All

3 Tools of the Trade: Working Women and Radical Women in the Liberation Era

Conclusion: Postscript from the Present Day

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781978822757

1978822758

OCLC:

1249557993