Reframing 1968
Subtitle: American politics, protest and identity
By: edited by Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780748698936; 9780748698950
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Protest movements; Nineteen sixty-eight, A.D.; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: 1968, a year of protest  -- Martin Halliwell and Nick Withma -- Part One.; title: Politics of Protest: -- One.; title: The new left: the American impress  -- Doug Rossinow ; -- Two.; title: 1968 and the fractured right  -- Elizabeth Tanry Shermer ; -- Three.; title: The irony of protest: Vietnam and the path to permanent war  -- Andrew Preston ; -- Four.; title: Life writing, protest and the idea of 1968  -- Nick Witham -- Part Two.; title: Spaces of Protest: -- Five.; title: On fire: the city and American protest in 1968  -- Daniel Matlin ; -- Six.; title: Centring the yard: student protest on campus in 1968  -- Stefan M. Bradley ; -- Seven.; title: The ceremony is about to begin: performance and 1968  -- Martin Halliwell ; -- Eight.; title: 1968: a pivotal moment in cinema  -- Sharon Monteith -- Part Three.; title: Identities and Protest: -- Nine.; title: 1968: end of the Civil Rights Movement?  -- Stephen Tuck ; -- Ten.; title: Gay liberation and the spirit of '68  -- Simon Hall ; -- Eleven.; title: Women's movements in 1968 and beyond  -- Anne M. Valk ; -- Twelve.; title: Organizing for economic justice in the late 1960s  -- Penny Lewis; title: Conclusion: the memory of 1968 -- Stephen J. Whitfield.