Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest and Identity

1968 was a tumultuous year for US politics, with 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, and the New Left and the New Right. Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political, and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements, looking at how protest has changed in the US from the late 1960s to the contemporary visibility of the Tea Party and the Occupy movement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 332 pages
Publication date: 23 January 2018
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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. Fifty years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political, and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors 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.

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. Fifty years on, Reframing 1968 explores the historical, political, and social legacy of 1968 in modern protest movements. The contributors 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.

Weight: 432g
Dimension: 137 x 215 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780748698950