Reframing 1968

American Politics, Protest and Identity

Martin Halliwell, Nick Witham (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2018
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9893-6 (ISBN)

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Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. 14 interdisciplinary essays 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 Tea Party and Occupy.

The 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. 14 interdisciplinary essays 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.

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).

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Acknowledgements

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction: 1968: A Year of ProtestMartin Halliwell and Nick Witham

Part I: Politics of Protest

1. The New Left: The American ImpressDoug Rossinow

2. 1968 and the Fractured RightElizabeth Tandy Shermer

3. The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and the Path to Permanent WarAndrew Preston

4. Life Writing, Protest and the Idea of 1968Nick Witham

Part II: Spaces of Protest

5. On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968Daniel Matlin

6. Centring the Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968Stefan M. Bradley

7. The Ceremony is About to Begin: Performance and 1968Martin Halliwell

8. 1968: A Pivotal Moment in CinemaSharon Monteith

Part III: Identities and Protest

9. 1968: The End of the Civil Rights Movement?Stephen Tuck

10. Gay Liberation and the Spirit of ’68Simon Hall

11. The Women’s Movement in 1968 and BeyondAnne M. Valk

12. Organizing for Economic Justice in the Late 1960sPenny Lewis

Conclusion: The Memory of 1968Stephen J. Whitfield

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Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2018
Zusatzinfo	17 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	519 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7486-9893-0 / 0748698930
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-9893-6 / 9780748698936
Zustand	Neuware