Reframing 1968 : : American Politics, Protest and Identity / / Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham.

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.) :; 17 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction / 1968: A Year of Protest
  • PART ONE / Politics of Protest
  • One / The New Left: The American Impress
  • Two / 1968 and The Fractured Right
  • Three / The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and The Path to Permanent War
  • Four / Life Writing, Protest and The Idea of 1968
  • PART TWO / Spaces of Protest
  • Five / On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968
  • Six / Centring The Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968
  • Seven / The Ceremony is about to Begin: Performance and 1968
  • Eight / 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema
  • PART THREE / Identities and Protest
  • Nine / 1968: End of The Civil Rights Movement?
  • Ten / Gay Liberation and The Spirit of ’68
  • Eleven / Women’s Movements in 1968 and beyond
  • Twelve / Organizing for Economic Justice in The Late 1960s
  • Conclusion / The Memory of 1968
  • Index