Rethinking the New Left: An Interpretative History

ISBN-13: 9781403966940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 240 str.

Van Gosse

Opis

From the 1950s to the 1970s, a host of movements struggled to make democracy and equality realities in America. A radical conception of democracy animated the movements for civil rights and black power, for peace and solidarity with the Third World, and for gender and sexual equality. From Vietnam to the war at home against African and Native Americans, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Asian Americans, from Women's to Gay Liberation, the New Left was the broadest-based movement for fundamental change in American history. This book synthesizes and chronicles those protests, confrontations, victories, and defeats over two decades and more. It has a much wider chronological focus than just the decade of the 1960s, and is the most inclusive and broadest ranging analytical synthesis of the New Left yet published.

Recenzje

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006

Spis treści

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Defining the Sixties and the New Left America in the 1950's: The Best of all Possible Worlds The New Left's Origins in the Old Left PART TWO, 1955-1965: The Renewal of Dissent The Black Freedom Struggle: From 'Civil Rights' to 'Freedom Now' Challenging the Cold War: 'Ban the Bomb! Fair Play for Cuba' Northern Students Demand 'Free Speech' and 'participatory Democracy' Underground Feminists and Homophiles 'The Problems That Have No Name' Vietnam and 'The War at Home' Black Power 'A Nation Within a Nation' Red Brown, and Yellow Power in 'Occupied America' The New Feminism and Women's Liberation: 'The Personal is Political' From Gay Liberation to Gay Rights: 'Out of the Closets and Into the Streets' Winning and Losing at the Same Time: The New Left Becomes America

O autorze

VAN GOSSE is Assistant Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College, Pennsylvania, USA.