Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham (eds.) - Reframing 1968: American Politics, Protest And Identity

Reframing 1968

Reframing 1968

American Politics, Protest and Identity

Edited by

MARTIN HALLIWELL AND NICK WITHAM

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INTRODUCTION / 1968: A Year of Protest
Martin Halliwell and Nick Witham

ONE / The New Left: The American Impress
Doug Rossinow

TWO / 1968 and The Fractured Right
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer

THREE / The Irony of Protest: Vietnam and The Path to Permanent War
Andrew Preston

FOUR / Life Writing, Protest and The Idea of 1968
Nick Witham

FIVE / On Fire: The City and American Protest in 1968
Daniel Matlin

SIX / Centring The Yard: Student Protest on Campus in 1968
Stefan M. Bradley

SEVEN / The Ceremony is about to Begin: Performance and 1968
Martin Halliwell

EIGHT / 1968: A Pivotal Moment in Cinema
Sharon Monteith

NINE / 1968: End of The Civil Rights Movement?
Stephen Tuck

TEN / Gay Liberation and The Spirit of 68
Simon Hall

ELEVEN / Womens Movements in 1968 and beyond
Anne M. Valk

TWELVE / Organizing for Economic Justice in The Late 1960s
Penny Lewis

CONCLUSION / The Memory of 1968
Stephen J. Whitfield

Stefan M. Bradley is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of African American Studies at Loyola Marymont University. He is author of Harlem vs. Columbia University: Black Student Power in the Late 1960s (2009) and co-editor of Alpha Phi Alpha: A Legacy of Greatness, The Demands of Transcendence (2011). His work has featured in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education and Washington Post and he is currently working on a new monograph, Blackened Ivy: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Ivy League in Postwar America.

Simon Hall studied history at Sheffield and Cambridge, and held a Fox International Fellowship at Yale University, before moving to the University of Leeds, where he is currently Professor of Modern History. He has published extensively on the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, the gay rights movement and the relationship between political protest and American patriotism. His monographs include American Patriotism, American Protest: Social Movements since the Sixties (2011) and Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (2012), and his most recent book is 1956: The World in Revolt (2016).

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. He is the author of ten books, including The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture (2005), Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 19451970 (2013) and Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 19702000 (2017), and he is the co-editor of American Thought and Culture in the 21st Century (2008) and William James and the Transatlantic Conversation (2014). He was the 18th chair of the British Association for American Studies.

Penny Lewis is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies at the City University of New York. She writes about labour, class and social movements, and is the author of Hardhats, Hippies and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory (2013) and co-editor of The City is the Factory: New Solidarities and Spatial Strategies in an Urban Age (2017). She is currently working on a public history project and tour guide, A Peoples Guide to New York City, and a study of the mass popular uprisings following the Arab Spring and Occupy.

Daniel Matlin is Senior Lecturer in the History of the United States since 1865 at Kings College London. He is the author of On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis (2013), which was co-winner of the Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize and of the Benjamin Hooks National Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work on the American Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. He has also published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of American Studies and is currently researching the intellectual history of Harlem.

Sharon Monteith is Professor of American Literature and Cultural History at Nottingham Trent University and holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Her publications include Gender and the Civil Rights Movement (1999; 2004; 2017), South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture (2002), Film Histories (2006), American Culture in the 1960s (2008), The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Media (2011), The Transatlantic Sixties (2013) and The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American South (2013). Her forthcoming book is SNCCs Stories: Narrative Culture and the African American Freedom Struggle in the US South.

Andrew Preston is Professor of American History at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Clare College. He is the author of The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam (2006) and Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (2012), and co-editor of four other books on various aspects of American diplomatic, political and transnational history, including Nixon in the World (2008) and, with Doug Rossinow, Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History (2017).

Doug Rossinow is Professor of History at the University of Oslo. He is the author of The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America (1998) and The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s (2015), among other works, and he is co-editor, with Andrew Preston, of Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of US History (2017). He is currently writing a history of US Zionism since 1948.

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She has published widely on American politics and economic development. Her publications include opinion pieces, scholarly articles, edited collections and the monograph Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics (2013). She is currently working on the political economy of higher education, first through a short book on the student-loan industry, Indentured Students, and a broader study of the trajectory of American public universities, provisionally titled The Business of Education.