America in White, Black, and gray
America in White, Black, and gray: the stormy 1960s Klaus P. Fischer
Publisher: New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006.
ISBN: 0826418163
DDC: 973.923
LCC: E841
Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 420-438) and index.
A voice from the silent generation --The way we were: before and
after the 1960s --An age of protest --The myth of a perfect beginning
--Immigration: more pluribus than unum? --The flaws of consensus
liberalism --Beacon or crusader: splits in American foreign policy
--The racist blood-knot in American history --Baby boomers and their
parents --The American horn of plenty: paradox and portent --The
emergence of a teenage subculture --Kennedy the man and the leader:
image and reality --The Kennedy administration: the best and the
brightest? --Eyeball to eyeball: the world at the nuclear brink --The
trauma of November 22, 1963, and its aftermath --JFK: the legacy
--Sit-down protests in the South --Freedom rides --Voter registration
--Black nationalism --The end of the second reconstruction --A Texan
in the White House --The great society --Liberal justice: the Warren
court --From great society to sick society --Approaching a quagmire
--Paying any price and bearing any burden --Hot damn Vietnam: LBJ and
the war --Hell no, we won't go --Nixon's war and defeat in Vietnam
--The end of victory culture? --A speculative stampede on gold
--Losing the streets: the crisis of law and order --The "dump
Johnson" movement --Thunder from the right --Miami, Chicago, and the
election of 1968 --America awash in rebellious young people --The new
left and student militancy in the 1960s --The catalyst: the free
speech movement at Berkeley --
From protest to "revolutionary action" --Radical terrorism and the
conservative reaction --Black student militancy --The student right
--Coda --Was there a counterculture? --The myth of the Woodstock
nation --Back to nature: the commune movement --It's the music,
stupid! --Counterculture into consumer culture --Women's liberation
--Radical feminism --Coming out of the closet: gay men --Brown power
--Red power --The minority rights problem: more pluribus than unum?
--Fault lines revisited --Consumer culture is boomer culture --The
great cultural implosion --The end of shame and guilt --The
indigestible sixties.
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