Changing the world, changing oneself : political protest and collective identities in West Germany and the U.S. in the 1960s and 1970s / / edited by Belinda Davis ... [et al.].

• Superior document: Protest, culture and society ; v. 3
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Davis, Belinda.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, culture and society ; v. 3.
• Physical Description: xxi, 334 p.

Table of Contents

Intellectual transfer : Theodor W. Adorno's American experience / Detlev Claussen -- The limits of praxis : the social-psychological foundations of Theodor Adorno's and Herbert Marcuse's interpretations of the 1960s protest movements / John Abromeit -- America's Vietnam in Germany, Germany in America's Vietnam : on the relocation of spaces and the appropriation of history / Wilfried Mausbach -- Topographies of memory : the 1960s student movement in Germany and the US : representations in contemporary German literature / Susanne Rinner -- "We too are Berliners" : protest, symbolism, and the city in Cold War Germany / Carla MacDougall -- A growing problem for US foreign policy : the West German student movement and the Western Alliance / Martin Klimke -- Ostpolitik as domestic containment : the cultural contradictions of the Cold War and the West German state response / Jeremi Suri -- Transformation by subversion? The New Left and the question of violence / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- "From protest to resistance" : Ulrike Meinhof and the transatlantic movement of ideas / Karin Bauer -- White Negroes : the fascination of the authentic in the West German counterculture of the 1960s / Detlef Siegfried -- The Black Panther Solidarity Committee and the trial of the Ramstein 2 / Maria Hohn -- Between ballots and bullets / Georgy Katsiaficas -- A whole world opening up : transcultural contact, difference, and the politicization of "new left" activists / Belinda Davis -- "We didn't know how it was going to turn out" : contemporary activists discuss their experiences of the 1960s and 1970s.