Reframing 1968

American Politics, Protest and Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Av Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham, University of Leicester) Halliwell, Martin (Professor of American Thought and Culture, Canterbury Christ Church University) Witham, Nick (Senior Lecturer in American Social and Cultural History

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The first 50-year retrospective of the most tumultuous year the 1960s for activism and radical politicsThe 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. The contributors 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.14 new interdisciplinary essays investigate the legacy of modern protest movements in the United StatesGives you a micro-history of 1968, framed within a broader historical and political understanding of modern protestSpans political trends, social movements, public figures, ideologies and cultural channelsContributorsStefan M. Bradley, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA.Simon Hall, University of Leeds, UK.Martin Halliwell, University of Leicester, UK.Penny Lewis, City University of New York, USA.Daniel Matlin, King's College London, UK.Sharon Monteith, University of Nottingham, UK.Andrew Preston, University of Cambridge, UK.Doug Rossinow, University of Oslo, Norway.Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Loyola University Chicago, USA.Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford, UK.Anne M. Valk, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA.Stephen J. Whitfield, Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA.Nick Witham, Institute of the Americas, University College London, UK.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-01-23
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt419 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor332
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748698950

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Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Thought and Culture at the University of Leicester. His recent books include The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (2022) and Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020 (2025). Nick Witham is Lecturer in US Political History at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He is a historian of the twentieth-century United States with a focus on the politics and culture of protest and dissent since the 1960s. He is the author of The Cultural Left and the Reagan Era: US Protest and Central American Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2015).

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: 1968: A Year of ProtestMartin Halliwell and Nick WithamPart I: Politics of Protest1. The New Left: The American ImpressDoug Rossinow2. 1968 and the Fractured RightElizabeth Tandy Shermer3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent WarAndrew Preston4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968Nick Witham Part II: Spaces of Protest5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968Daniel Matlin6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968Stefan M. Bradley 7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968Martin Halliwell8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in CinemaSharon MonteithPart III: Identities and Protest9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?Stephen Tuck10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of ’68Simon Hall 11. The Women’s Movement in 1968 and BeyondAnne M. Valk12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960sPenny LewisConclusion: The Memory of 1968Stephen J. WhitfieldIndex

Separated into three sections, Reframing 1968 cleverly refrains from a predictable plod through the overfamiliar events of the year. Instead, the collection’s authors rethink and reposition 1968 in terms of both its context and its meaning … Consistently fascinating, Reframing 1968 is an excellent primer for readers seeking both a guide to this crucial year and a wider examination of major trends in American social, cultural and political history. It deserves a large audience.