Younger than that now : : the politics of age in the 1960s / / Holly V. Scott.

"Retrospectives of the 1960s routinely include the face of youth rebellion: long-haired students occupying campus buildings, young men burning draft cards, hippies dancing at Woodstock. In Younger Than That Now, Holly V. Scott explores how the idea of 'youth' served as a tactic in the...

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Superior document:Culture, politics, and the Cold War
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Place / Publishing House:Amherst : : University of Massachusetts Press,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Culture, politics, and the cold war.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The youth frame
  • Student citizen, part I : the civil rights movement
  • Student citizen, part II : the early New Left
  • "No student panty raid" : covering youth activism in the early 1960s
  • Youth-baiting : coverage of young activists in the late 1960s
  • "Youth will make the revolution" : creating the youth frame
  • "It ain't me Babe" : racial and gendered limits of the youth frame
  • "Now what am I to do with this creature?" : contesting the youth frame
  • Conclusion: Memory and the meaning of youth.