Learning the Left
Subtitle: Popular Culture, Liberal Politics, and Informal Education from 1900 to the Present
By: Edited by Paul J. Ramsey, Eastern Michigan University
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781681230535; 9781681230542; 9781681230559
Subjects: Mass media; Non-formal education; Popular literature; Popular culture; History and criticism; Liberalism; History
Description: A collection of essays that examines the way in which young people and adults learned (and continue to learn) the tenets of liberal politics in the United States through popular media and the arts from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. -- cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Popular Culture, Learning, and the Left / Paul J. Ramsey; title: Learning to Listen : Conflicts between Youth and Adults regarding the Phonograph in the Early-20th Century /    Jacob Hardesty; title: Fanning the Flames of Discontent : Inciting Teachings of the Wobblies / Daniel Dethrow; title: Teaching Children the "Real" Story : Oppositional Children's Literature, 1920-1940 / Hani Morgan; title: A Green Peace Tinted Red : Cold War America in The Boy With Green Hair / Peter W. Lee; title: Promoting the Political Left through Popular Novels : Howard Fast, Historical Fiction, and the Cold War / Paul J. Ramsey; title: Pedagogy of the Radical Black Press / Khuram Hussain; title: Learning the Underground : Plastic Childhood and Popular Culture / Marek Tesar; title: Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas : Educational Reform in Popular Texts / Richard Ognibene.