An American half-century : postwar culture and politics in the USA
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An American half-century : postwar culture and politics in the USA
Pluto Press, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780745305004
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An eclectic look at mass media and popular culture from contributors including Bell Hooks, Noam Chomsky and Manning Marable. "One Step Forward" traces radical politics and culture in the US through the Cold War, the swinging sixties and the conservative era of Reagan and Bush. It assesses the main oppositional movements such as the civil rights, women's liberation and peace protestors, their position at the margins, their influence and their legacies. Contributions include: Todd Gitlin on "1968: The Two Cultures"; Jeffrey Walsh on "The Radical Muse: US poetry from Allen Ginsberg to Adrienne Rich"; Bell Hooks on "Black Women's Literature"; Kevin Carragee on "US Media and Popular Culture" and Noam Chomsky on "The Nineties and Beyond".
Table of Contents
- The Cold War and the culture of resistance
- so that the dead may not be killed again: on Mailer and Doctorow
- the deep immortal wish: radicalism and modern American poetry
- the world turned upside down
- the meaning of the sixties
- students, capital and multiversity: from Berkely to Livingstone
- side saddle on the golden calf: American pop music and pop music culture
- looking backward and forward: feminism and motherhood
- black women: constructing the revolutionary subject
- Malcolm X and the continuing crisis in Black America.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745305011
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In February 1941, as the United States entered the Second World War, the press magnate Henry Luce proclaimed the birth of 'the American century', which he foresaw as a period in which free enterprise would triumph in a post-war world regulated in accordance with America's wishes: the American Dream. The American Half Century brings together distinguished political and cultural commentators such as bell hooks, Manning Marable, Todd Gitlin and Noam Chomsky, to consider the extent to which Luce's imperfect vision of a global American hegemony - America's twentieth-century 'manifest destiny' at home and abroad - was subverted by the cultural and political upheavals in the years following the Second World War. In an invigorating collection of essays - on race, gender, popular culture, the politics of resistance and oppression - the contributors trace the patterns of domestic opposition and dissent that have mirrored the growth of America's role in the 'new world order'. In doing so they offer a fresh perspective on postwar cultural history in the United States.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Michael L Klein The Roads Not Taken
1. The Cold War and the Culture of Resistance
Norman Markowitz (Rutgers University), author of The Rise and Fall of People's Century
2. So That the Dead May Not be Killed Again: on Mailer and Doctorow
Richard Godden (University of Keele) author of Fiction and Capital
3. The Deep Immortal Wish: Radicalism and Modern American Poetry
Jeffrey Walsh (Manchester Polytechnic) co-editor of Tell me Lies About Vietnam
4. The World Turned Upside Down
Jackie DiSalvo (City University of New York) author of War of Titans
5. The Meaning of the Sixties
Abbie Hoffman author of Woodstock Nation
6. Students, Capital and Multiversity: From Berkely to Livingstone
Michael L Klein
7. Side Saddle On the Golden Calf: American Pop Music and Pop Music Culture
John Storey (Sunderland Polytechnic)
8. Looking Backward and Forward: Feminism and Motherhood
Ann Snitow (The New School) editor of Politics of Sexuality
9. Black Women: Constructing the Revolutionary Subject
Bell Hooks (Oberlin College) author of Ain't I a Woman
10. Malcolm X and the Continuing Crisis in Black America
Manning Marable (Colorado University) author of Race, Reform and Rebellion
also articles by Duncan Webster (University of Warwick), Michael Delli Carpini (Columbia University), Keven Carragee (Boston College) and Gene Michaud (University of Massachusetts)
Epilogue: The Nineties and Beyond - interview with Noam Chomsky
by "Nielsen BookData"