Showing papers in "The Sixties in 2011"
TL;DR: McGuire as mentioned in this paper opens At the Dark End of the Street with a vivid and disturbing account of the 1944 World War II bombing of London's underground railway station and its aftermath.
Abstract: by Danielle L. McGuire, New York, Knopf, 2010, 352 pp., US$27.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780307269065. Danielle L. McGuire opens At the Dark End of the Street with a vivid and disturbing account of the 1944...
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TL;DR: The 1970s were a decade that scholars ignored as discussed by the authors, and they were sandwiched between the turbulent era of the 1st World War and the 1970s of the Second World War.
Abstract: by Jefferson Cowie, New York, New Press, 2010, 464 pp., $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-56584-875-7 The 1970s were a decade that scholars ignored. They were sandwiched between the turbulent era of the 1...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors situate the Iranian student movement abroad and its challenges to the Washington-Tehran alliance and its internationalism within the context of US international history rather than establish and maintain systematic contacts with the opposition abroad to formulate a more dynamic and less myopic foreign policy.
Abstract: Iranian students amassed one of the most impressive movements of the 1960s Through diligent and efficient transnational organizing in the United States and Western Europe, oppositionist students wedded their rejection of the US-supported regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi with a broader, more inclusive internationalism that thrived in the late 1960s This essay situates the Iranian student movement abroad -- both its challenges to the Washington-Tehran alliance and its internationalism -- within the context of US international history Rather than establish and maintain systematic contacts with the opposition abroad to formulate a more dynamic and less myopic foreign policy, the Johnson and Nixon administrations interpreted Iranian student protest as an impediment to forging a stronger alliance with the Shah of Iran
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TL;DR: Henderson as mentioned in this paper, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2011, 384 pp., $70.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4426-1071-2
Abstract: by Stuart Henderson, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2011, 384 pp., $70.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4426-1071-2 It is only in recent years that historians have turned their attention to Canada...
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TL;DR: The authors explored the intellectual biography and diverse artistic, literary and cultural production of Jeff Nuttall, a significant, if underacknowledged, figure on the British underground scene in the Sixties, arguing that Nuttall played an important international role as a catalyst and co-ordinator of countercultural events and activities through his involvement with small press publications, as an early instigator of 'happenings' and 'performance art' in the UK, and as a correspondent, networker and commentator.
Abstract: This essay explores the intellectual biography and diverse artistic, literary and cultural production of Jeff Nuttall – a significant, if underacknowledged, figure on the British ‘underground’ scene in the Sixties. It argues that Nuttall played an important international role as a catalyst and co-ordinator of ‘countercultural’ events and activities through his involvement with small press publications, as an early instigator of ‘happenings’ and ‘performance art’ in the UK, and as a correspondent, networker and commentator. In particular, it addresses Nuttall’s understanding that ‘imagination’ and ‘affect’ could be allied with collective possibilities for emancipatory social change, as well as liberatory personal development. Finally, it briefly considers the currency of these ideas within the context of a new articulation of how a ‘politics of possibility’ may be informed by notions of embodied and transmitted affectivity.
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TL;DR: Montejano et al. as discussed by the authors, 2010, 344 pp., $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-292-72124-1, $24.95 (paperback), 978- 0-292 -72290-3 Scholarly and activist accounts of the Chica...
Abstract: by David Montejano, Austin, University of Texas Press, 2010, 344 pp., $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-292-72124-1, $24.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-292-72290-3 Scholarly and activist accounts of the Chica...
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TL;DR: A closer examination of Robinson's life and experience indicates that, far from being representative of her community, she was uncommonly well educated with varied work experience and also had some distance from her community because of her status as a returned returned returned migrant as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: This article examines Bernice Robinson, a South Carolina “citizenship schoolteacher” and local activist. In current scholarship, Robinson has been both understudied and misunderstood. She has been memorialized as a community member without formal teacher training who nevertheless became an effective teacher who inspired her students to register to vote and become political and civic activists. A closer examination of Robinson’s life and experience indicates that, far from being representative of her community, she was uncommonly well educated with varied work experience. She also had some distance from her community because of her status as a “returned migrant” and as an individual who transgressed social and gender norms. The article reviews what Robinson’s example means for scholarly understandings of women’s leadership roles within the African American freedom struggle. It suggests that Robinson’s experience and status meant that she acted as a “formal community bridge leader,” but it suggests that lea...
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TL;DR: Greiner and Greiner as mentioned in this paper discuss the role of government corruption in the war in Iraq. But they focus on the military. And they focus only on the war on women.
Abstract: by Bernd Greiner, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009, $2500 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-300-15451-1 Writing in 1995, former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara famously lamented his government’s
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TL;DR: Even though the number of African American students in American higher education was up by 70% in 1965, students of African descent comprised about 4.5% of the total enrollment as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Even though the number of African American students in American higher education was up by 70% in 1965, students of African descent comprised about 4.5% of the total enrollment. College programs and offices geared to black student enrichment were rare. Few courses studying African Americans could be found in curriculums, even at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Almost all HBCUs were dominated by all-white (or majority white) boards of trustees, many were staffed with mostly white faculty, and several were led by presidents who had resisted civil rights protests in the early 1960s. Class, chapel, and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) were compulsory at many HBCUs. There was not a single Black Studies unit on a college campus. Galas organized by white students mocking African Americans were rife. College sports teams at historically white colleges and universities (HWCUs) increasingly recruited African Americans, but coaching staffs stayed lily white and black athletes complained of poor treatment, from racial slurs to being forced into “black” positions. Black neighborhoods were resisting the physical expansion of many urban HWCUs. Finding unapologetic and outspoken racists on HWCU campuses in 1965 seemed easier than locating black professors, administrators, and coaches. Literature on African Americans and non-racist scholarly examinations struggled to stay on the margins of the academy. As collegiate deans’ Paul E. Wisdom and Kenneth A. Shaw lamented in the Educational Record in 1969,
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TL;DR: The most dynamic social movement in our current political world is undoubtedly the cons... as mentioned in this paper, which is also the case of the #MeToo movement in the US, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Abstract: by Simon Hall, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010, 240 pp., $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0812242955 The most dynamic social movement in our current political world is undoubtedly the cons...
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TL;DR: Kosek's book as discussed by the authors provides a detailed account of the main social movements of the 1960s in the USA, and beyond these to understanding the burgeoning of nonviolent (but no longer Christian pacifist) movements throughout the world during the last 50 years.
Abstract: with a meticulous attention to documentary detail. (The notes and bibliography are excellent.) Only once or twice did I wish he had widened his range somewhat. There are only passing mentions of Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker. She had no formal affiliation with the FOR, which was mainly Protestant, and in fact sometimes hostile to the Catholic establishment, but it would have been illuminating to compare the two groups. I also would have liked a few pages on David Dellinger. He, too, was not a FOR activist, but he became a close associate of Muste’s and Martin Luther King’s and shared the Christian pacifist worldview. It is he, I am quite sure, who is portrayed at the center of the photograph on the dust jacket, the “Union Eight” (Union Theological Seminarians who refused the draft during World War II) under arrest in a paddy wagon or jail cell; Dellinger is the only one smiling. (The caption is little help.) There are books by and about Dellinger, to be sure (as well as Dorothy Day), but it would have been helpful to trace his connections with the major FOR figures and their milieu. For he was to emerge as the indispensable organizer of the huge anti-war marches in New York and Washington from 1965 to 1973, not to mention the Chicago demonstration of 1968. Kosek’s book cannot cover everything, of course, and it is remarkable how much it does deal with in 250 pages. It stops at the verge of the 1960s. That I wanted it to go on and take in more subjects is a token of praise more than criticism. It tells a story crucial to understanding the main social movements of the 1960s in the USA, and beyond these to understanding the burgeoning of nonviolent (but no longer Christian pacifist) movements throughout the world during the last 50 years.
TL;DR: Barry Miles has written an idiosyncratic, anecdotal, and often nostalgic commentary on what he regards as a... as mentioned in this paper, which is a collection of essays written in the early nineties.
Abstract: by Barry Miles, London, Atlantic Books, 2011, xii + 468 pp. (paper), ISBN 978 184354 6146 Barry Miles has written an idiosyncratic, anecdotal, and often nostalgic commentary on what he regards as a...
TL;DR: The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping... by Safiya Bukhari/edited by Laura Whitehorn, New York, Feminist Press, 2010, 264 pp., $15.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55861610-3
Abstract: by Safiya Bukhari/edited by Laura Whitehorn, New York, Feminist Press, 2010, 264 pp., $15.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-55861610-3 The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther, Keeping ...
TL;DR: The American Cathol... by Mark S. Massa, SJ as mentioned in this paper, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xvi + 191 pp., US$27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973412-2
Abstract: by Mark S. Massa, SJ, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010, xvi + 191 pp., US$27.95, ISBN 978-0-19-973412-2 Going through my mind as I read through Mark S. Massa’s fine book, The American Cathol...
TL;DR: Frystak as mentioned in this paper reviewed a good many books on the civil rights struggle in Louisiana, including the one by Shannon Frystak and Adam Fai et al., 2009.
Abstract: by Shannon Frystak, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2009, 261 pp., $42.50, ISBN 0807134937 A good many books have now been written on the civil rights struggle in Louisiana. Adam Fai...
TL;DR: Pamela Wojcik's The Apartment plot as discussed by the authors encourages readers to look beyond the prominence of the apartment plot in the book, and encourages them to consider other aspects of the plot.
Abstract: by Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Durham, Duke University Press, 2010, 310 pp, $2395 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-4773-6 Pamela Wojcik’s The Apartment Plot urges readers to look beyond the prominence o
TL;DR: The white activist and celebrated author Will D. Campbell was a Mississippi-born Southern Baptist minister who worked in the South during the civil rights movement, formally for the National Council of Churches, but informally in support of civil rights organizations and as a mediator in southern communities as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The white activist and celebrated author Will D. Campbell was a Mississippi-born Southern Baptist minister who worked in the South during the civil rights movement, formally for the National Council of Churches, but informally in support of civil rights organizations and as a mediator in southern communities. This article examines both Campbell’s career arc and his semi-autobiographical fiction to understand Campbell’s unusual ministry and theology. In studying Campbell’s career and how he constructed his southern identity, and particularly how he embraced his “redneck” heritage, this article hopes to rescue Campbell from caricature by journalists and some indifference from scholars, first by detailing the dimensions with which Campbell defined his Southernness and how that impelled his ministry, and second by capturing his theological evolution as embodying many contradictions of the Sixties more generally.
TL;DR: Nathoo as mentioned in this paper is an extremely well-researched addition to a series -Science, Technology and Medicine in Moderation: Ayesha Nathoo, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp., US $85.00 (cloth), 978140393987303
Abstract: by Ayesha Nathoo, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp., US $85.00 (cloth), 9781403987303 This is an extremely well-researched addition to a series – Science, Technology and Medicine in Moder...
TL;DR: In this paper, Joseph Kip Kosek, New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, 245 pp., US$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231144186 What do A.J. Muste, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Gregg, James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, James...
Abstract: by Joseph Kip Kosek, New York, Columbia University Press, 2009, 245 pp., US$55.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780231144186 What do A.J. Muste, Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Gregg, James Farmer, Bayard Rustin, James...
TL;DR: The art criticism of the British-born critic, curator, and educator Lawrence Alloway (1926-90) was examined in this article, where the authors emphasized the ways in which Alloway's approach to criticism both in the Sixties and afterwards was more aesthetically incorporative and politically progressive than that of his more formalist colleague Clement Greenberg.
Abstract: This article examines the art criticism of the British-born critic, curator, and educator Lawrence Alloway (1926–90). It emphasizes the ways in which Alloway’s approach to criticism both in the Sixties and afterwards was more aesthetically incorporative and politically progressive than that of his more formalist colleague Clement Greenberg. Alloway proposed a less hierarchical notion of a “fine art–Pop Art continuum” and brought reference to the surrounding social and political contexts of artworks into his aesthetic considerations. Alloway’s wide-ranging commentary addressing film, literature, politics, popular culture, and the visual arts laid significant and now under-acknowledged groundwork for many ideas taken for granted in contemporary art and art criticism.
TL;DR: The AMC series Mad Men, which depicts the heady world of Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, has been getting a lot of attention in the last few years as discussed by the authors, and it has been shown to be a good source of inspiration for our work.
Abstract: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), 19 February 2010 The AMC series Mad Men, which depicts the heady world of Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, has been getting a lot of attention la...
TL;DR: This article explored the phenomenon of the paper dress, putting it in the context of GDR youth policy, the growing youth culture in the country, and Cold War ideology, and argued that the GDR’s brief embrace of paper dresses, after severe state restrictions on the importation of western youth culture, was part of a gradual liberalization in GDR society.
Abstract: Despite its critique of Pop Art and western consumerism, the former GDR briefly promoted the “paper dress” as an attractive, fashion novelty for its youth, consistent with the tenets of “socialist fashion.” This essay explores the phenomenon of the paper dress, putting it in the context of GDR youth policy, the growing youth culture in the country, and Cold War ideology. It argues that the GDR’s brief embrace of the paper dress, after severe state restrictions on the importation of western youth culture, was part of a gradual liberalization of GDR society.
TL;DR: Sides, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 304 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780195377811 Over the past 20 years, historians charting the shifting geographies of twentieth-century sexuali...
Abstract: by Josh Sides, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 304 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780195377811 Over the past 20 years, historians charting the shifting geographies of twentieth-century sexuali...
TL;DR: Tietchen et al. as mentioned in this paper described the cultural scene circa 1960, a vibrant mingling of Cuban and forei..., a vibrant mixture of Cuban culture and forensics.
Abstract: by Todd F. Tietchen, Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2010, xiii + 194 pp., $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-3520-8 Havana’s cultural scene circa 1960, a vibrant mingling of Cuban and forei...
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TL;DR: In this article, Howard Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, reprint edn, 2010, 272 pp., US $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199754250 Nicaraguan president Louis Somoza, a loyal if unsavory client of...
Abstract: by Howard Jones, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, reprint edn, 2010, 272 pp., US $15.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780199754250 Nicaraguan president Louis Somoza, a loyal if unsavory client of...
TL;DR: McMillillian as discussed by the authors put underground newspapers front and center as a front-and-center source of information for the underground underground newspaper movement in the '70s and '80s.
Abstract: by John McMillian, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, 304 pp., $27.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0195319927 In Steal This Book (1971), Abbie Hoffman put underground newspapers front and center as th...
TL;DR: The union of their dreams: power, hope and struggle in Cesar Chavez's farm worker movement, by Miriam... as mentioned in this paper, 2009, 368 pp., $34.95 ISBN 978-0195162011
Abstract: by Marshall Ganz, New York, Oxford University Press, 2009, 368 pp., $34.95 ISBN 978-0195162011 The union of their dreams: power, hope and struggle in Cesar Chavez’s farm worker movement, by Miriam ...
TL;DR: Weiner's book, called called to serve: Stories of Men and Women Confronted by... as discussed by the authors, was one of the first books published by the Levellers Press.
Abstract: by Tom Weiner, Amherst, Levellers Press, 2011, 378 pp., $22.50 (softcover), ISBN 9780981982045 When I first began to read Tom Weiner’s book, Called to Serve: Stories of Men and Women Confronted by ...
TL;DR: This one day symposium was one of many worldwide celebrations scheduled to coincide with the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan as mentioned in this paper. Other notable academic events included a three day conference in Vienna (“Re...
Abstract: This one day symposium was one of many worldwide celebrations scheduled to coincide with the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan. Other notable academic events included a three day conference in Vienna (“Re...